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Maize Picking Up-to-Date

The Gisborne maize scene is slowly beginning to look more like its American counterpart.

After the grain is unloaded into a truck, it goes to drying bins, and in only a few hours after harvesting, it is in the bags.

The next stage will probably be the erection of grain silos for storage as in the United States.

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This machine (right) not only picks the maize; it shells it as it goes.

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Golden grain pours from picker-sheller into truck

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Kevin Higgins, part-owner of the crop, watches as crop unloads at drier.

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Grain from drying-bin in background bagged for transport. Pictures were taken in 25-acre paddock at Makauri. Machine and drying bins at Matawhero: R. T. Mullooly.