MAIZEX: Delivering the best seed for your farm, and savings to your bottom line.

Our fully integrated production system delivers the best possible seed quality to your farm and saves you money in the process.

Here's how we deliver such high quality seed:

• All our hybrid seed is produced on the rich, fine textured soils of western Chatham Kent. Isolation from other pollen sources and field history are key field selection criteria. Fields are planted to both female and male seed parents.
• As the female parent tassel emerges, we remove it using both wheel pulling machines and hundreds of summer students.
• Timely detasseling, along with good isolation, are key to genetic purity.
• After the pollination is complete we cut out the male parent leaving a pure stand of hybrid seed.
• When the seed reaches 30-35% moisture, we harvest the ears of the female parent. The ear corn harvester is followed by our unique power sorter, which removes any remaining husk and passes the crop over a sorting belt where the seed is hand sorted for purity and quality.
• The crop is trucked from our fields and placed in our single pass low temperature ear corn dryers. We dry the seed to 10-12% moisture, remove it from the cob and put it into bulk storage to await cleaning, sizing, treating and bagging.
• All seed is carefully conditioned and bagged at our own facility.

Great care is taken to produce the best quality seed because good seed helps assure a good crop!