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D-yellow-maize Dictionary

Yellow Maize

Maize grown mainly for animal feed

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Plain meaning
Maize grown mainly for animal feed
How to use it
Grow yellow maize where a feed mill or livestock producer will buy it close by.
South African benchmark
South Africa grows both colours, as Article 3 explains.
Country notes
Yellow maize demand in the four local markets follows the poultry and pork industries.
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M1-U1
Calculate it
T-M1-03 Yield-to-Income Calculator
Library sources
LIB-A001, LIB-A003, LIB-P-Maize, LIB-P-Maize-IP
See also
White maize, Feed conversion ratio
Maize: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedMaize: how the business runsSold bytonnes (t) per hectare1Plant2Grow3Harvest4Dry and store5Sell to GMB, miller or feedZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Maize Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M1 Maize.