Growing maize provides a relaxed lifestyle

Rob and Brigitta Simpson, Bay of Plenty, 2009/10 season

Bay of Plenty grower Rob Simpson planted his first maize crop 24 years ago after his interest was sparked by his father?s involvement with a company that was marketing maize grain at the time.

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Improved genetics and better weed control key to increasing maize grain yields

Powdrell Services Ltd, Northern Hawke?s Bay, 2009/10 season

Improved maize genetics and better weed control have allowed long-term Northern Hawke?s Bay maize growers Ewan Powdrell, his father Rowley and local farmer Michael Thomas to keep increasing their maize grain yields.

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Isolated maize cropping provides income - and a challenge

Neil Rogers, East Coast and Bay of Plenty, 2008/09 season

Cropping some of the most isolated maize-growing land in the country provides an income as well as a challenge for Poverty Bay-based Neil Rogers. Neil grows maize on 500 ha of lease land in 15-20 blocks located from Te Kaha through to Tolaga Bay, a distance of more than 200 km.

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Poverty Bay grain crop yields over 20 tonnes dry per hectare

Brian Amor, Gisborne, 2008/09 season

An outstanding Pioneer® brand 34B97 strip trial yield of 20.01 t/ha saw Poverty Bay maize grower Brian Amor win the 2008 Pioneer Maize for Grain Yield Competition.

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Growers' skills deliver quality seed maize

Frank and David Briant, Poverty Bay, 2006/07 season

Mutual respect and strong friendships underpin many of the relationships between Pioneer® brand seeds and the Company's maize growers. This is particularly so with the Company's seed growers, a select group of Gisborne farmers upon whom much of the New Zealand maize industry relies.

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Technology and genetics drive crop performance

Doherty Family, Bay of Plenty, 2006/07 season

A combination of passion, technology and technique has kept Mick Doherty growing maize for over 40 years, and that passion for the crop now continues with the involvement of his son Andrew.

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Brownrigg Agriculture - three time champion!

Brownrigg Agriculture, Hawke's Bay, 2005/06 season

Getting the basics right has been the simple but effective secret behind Brownrigg Agriculture?s success as Hawke?s Bay?s largest maize grower. The Company grows up to 800 hectares of maize on land it owns and leases around the Bay, and which has been built up by the hard work of two brothers, Jonathan and David Brownrigg.

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Grain growing driven by vision and scale

Colin MacKinnon, Bay of Plenty and South Auckland, 2005/06 season

Large scale maize grower Colin MacKinnon has spread his cropping risk between two provinces, and in doing so has become one of New Zealand?s largest grain growers.

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Maize meets challenges of East Coast

Neil Rogers, East Coast, 2005/06 season

Despite maize being a low risk crop offering healthy returns, the East Coast provides its share of challenges to the crop and growers. The 2005-06 season was no exception.

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Talents combine to boost family business

Power Grain, Eastern Bay of Plenty, 2005/06 season

The appeal of combining personal skills and growing the family business was the catalyst for Cameron Power and his brother-in-law Evan Murphy to return to their family maize growing enterprise Power Grain based in Whakatane.

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Maize growing and history go hand in hand

Guy and Isobel Nicol, Opotiki, 2004/05 season

With a quarter of a century of maize grain growing behind them, Guy and Isobel Nicol have a history all of their own in the industry.

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