Maize and Inoculants
TSR can assist with maize seed and silage inoculants, with a focus on feed quality outcomes — the right product for your growing conditions, harvest timing, and storage setup.
Good silage starts with the right seed and inoculant
TSR can assist with maize seed and silage inoculants, with a focus on feed quality outcomes. We’ll help you find the right product for your growing conditions, harvest timing, and storage setup.
We can help with:
Maize seed selection & variety advice
Silage inoculants
Feed quality & storage advice
BRIXX™
Bred to be Fed™ — by Hyprecision
Purpose-bred stay green silage maize, good starch, higher digestible fibre. Silage genetics selected for New Zealand's cool-climate conditions - similar tonnage as traditional hybrids, in fewer days, with fewer seeds per hectare. Tom Rogers is the local Maize seed advisor for NZ nationwide.
Genetics | Silage specific |
Starch | ~30% |
Population | 85k–100k / ha |
Days seed to feed | 100–110 days |
Harvest | Green, 28%–34% DM |
Maturity advantage | 3+ weeks earlier |
NDFD30 | 63-68% |
BRIXX vs grain maize — what the numbers showed
A 10-day monitored feeding trial at Woodford Holsteins, Karapiro (299 cows) compared BRIXX silage-specific maize against grain hybrid maize, tracking cow behaviour with CowManager sensors and measuring milk quality throughout.
Download the full trial report below to see the data.
+48min
More eating & rumination per day
Higher digestive activity vs grain maize
4.10%
Peak milk fat
During the BRIXX feeding period
↓
Milk urea dropped
27–31 mg/dL — better protein-energy balance
3.5–3.67%
Milk protein held steady
Despite lower starch in the silage-specific maize
