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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.
This machine (right) not only picks the maize; it shells it as it goes.
Golden grain pours from picker-sheller into truck
Kevin Higgins, part-owner of the crop, watches as crop unloads at drier.
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.