Maize has been receiving some bad press of late. This doesn’t mean we should do away with using it as a game crop altogether, it is just that people are becoming more aware of the downsides to growing it.
One of the biggest issues associated with the growing of maize is soil erosion and the connected loss of topsoil, as well as the leaching of chemicals into watercourses. It is also hungry crop, and as such is relatively expensive to grow when compared with something such as a millet mix, which requires less fertiliser. Add to that the fact that