Our agronomy and product teams conduct research annually with the goal of providing ideas or support information to help you make the best decisions to maximize profitability on your farm. The summary of our 2025 Ontario agronomy research and findings from the past season can be found in our 2026 Agronomy Insights publication. This includes…
Category: Agronomy
Invest in Yield: Prep Your Planter!
Read time: approx. 8 min. An old saying states that “you have one chance to make a first impression,” and farmers understand they get one pass of the planter in the spring to set the benchmark for the rest of the year. It underscores the need for diligence in preparing a planter, especially for corn….
Drought-Stressed Corn & Silage Harvest Considerations
In many areas of the country, the dry weather has persisted essentially from June to the middle of August, and the forecast is not particularly promising for any relief in the near future. This means that many producers in these areas are struggling now with evaluating drought-impacted corn fields for possible silage harvest options. Below…
The Great ON Yield Tour
The 10th annual Great ON Yield Tour will begin August 11, 2025, taking place through to August 22, 2025. Be sure to follow along on X/Twitter with the hashtag #ONYield25 to get updates on how corn and soybeans are looking across the province. As in years passed, there will be two final events to announce…
2025 Agronomy Insights Now Available
This past season, Maizex continued to invest in agronomy research with the goal of providing ideas or support information to help you make the best decisions to maximize profitability on your farm. The results are summarized in our newly published 2025 Maizex Agronomy Insights publication.As a Canadian farmer-owned seed business, we also continue to invest…
The 2024 Great ON Yield Tour
Maizex is proud to be a founding partner in the Great ON Yield Tour. Beginning on August 12, 2024, this will be our 9th outing across Ontario’s countryside, scouting hundreds of fields over two weeks to help farmers better understand where their crops are at as well as the province as a whole. Two events…
The Sharp Edge returns for Season 5
Bern Tobin of RealAgriculture and Henry Prinzen, Market Development Agronomist for Maizex, visit Simcoe, Ontario, farmer Kyle Sowden on the season debut of The Sharp Edge to discuss his on-farm sulphur trials in 2023. Read more on realagriculture.com and check out the video below….
2023 Agronomy Summary now available
Our summary of the agronomy research our team conducted in 2023 is now available in digital format. Click here to view and download your copy. Early hard copies will be available at our in-person agronomy meetings being held throughout Ontario this winter. To request a hard copy be mailed directly to you, please email info@maizex.com….
Drone Seeding Cover Crops into Soybeans
The latest episode of our Sharp Edge series with RealAgriculture brings hosts Bern Tobin and Henry Prinzen to the Hammerton farm in Sweaburg, Ontario, where they are experimenting with seeding a cover crop into soybeans using drone technology. Read more about it here and be sure to watch the video!…
Grading Your 2023 Silage Crop
Now that the 2023 corn silage harvest is complete, you should take some time to evaluate the crop you produced and the feed you will be feeding from it for the next year. It is always good to review the season and what you learned in order to make notes to help plan for next…