Paula Hynes: Maize season makes me wish our contractor had airplanes

While I'm glad Ryanair was not given the task of planting and harvesting our maize, given the delayed flights we have recently experienced, I know our contractors CCS would have as usual given an efficient service

Denis Crowley and Colin Murphy of CCS Contracting harvesting maize on the Hynes farm in mid-September.

Maize season is upon us — contractors are back in the fields harvesting. We planted our maize on  April 15. Yes, I know it was early, but temperatures were good, soil conditions were ideal and the crop was planted under film to protect it. 

The variety we planted was Saxon from Goldcrop, a high-yielding variety with early ripening. It rained the weekend after the crop was planted, so it was an ideal start.