Growing maize on your whenua

Grain maize is an arable crop for flat, deep, well-drained land with warm summers. It's cheap to grow compared with most horticulture, and most of the crop is sold for poultry and livestock feed.

This factsheet covers when to plant and harvest, pest management, typical yields and growing costs, with a worked example of the returns, plus FAR levies, food safety, freshwater farm plans and NZGAP certification.