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Stunted plants and a lack of sun during critical growth stages mean maize maturity is several weeks behind last year, with harvest still up to three weeks away for the earliest farms.
The first results from the Farmers Weekly/Grainseed dry matter assessments show most crops have yet to make a significant move in dry matter content, with John Hancock's plants at Petworth, West Sussex, the first to show any real change.
Grainseed's Neil Groom says this crop is about three weeks behind last year's and this is reflected in dry matters across the country. "However, last year was an exceptional maize growing year and this year has been a trickier season.
"Flowering and pollination in...