🌱✨ Celebrating 75 Years of Legacy & Innovation! ✨🌱 For 75 years, PRIDE Seeds has been a leader in the seed industry, shaping the future of agriculture with every harvest. From pioneering new seed varieties to supporting farmers with cutting-edge agronomy, the legacy continues to grow. 💪🌽 Join, Matt Reaume, Economic Development Officer with the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, as he teams up with Stephanie Myslik, Sales Agronomist, and Matt Chapple, Product & Agronomy Manager for PRIDE Seeds, to reflect on the lasting impact PRIDE Seeds has had on the farming community and how their commitment to innovation and quality has helped shape the future of agriculture. Here's to 75 years of cultivating success, driving innovation, and planting the seeds for a thriving future! 🎉🌱

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In this episode of RealAgriculture's Corn School, Aidan Filipchuk of Pride Seeds discusses some of the contributing factors to choosing a silage hybrid. Matching the final use, such as for just silage or for grazing, and for dairy or beef cattle, with standability and growing season length will have a direct impact on the eventual success of the crop

As tar spot continues to spread northeast across Ontario's corn region, growers are looking to build a better defence against the yield-robbing leaf disease. Crop genetics and fungicide will likely be the one-two punch growers use to control the disease, which is characterized by tar-like speckling on the upper surface of corn leaves. The fungal pathogen has been delivering yield hits ranging from 20 to 60 bushels per acre (in highly infected fields) since it was first identified in Indiana and Illinois in 2015.

2025 marks a remarkable milestone—75 years of PRIDE Seeds leading the charge in genetics and innovation within the agricultural industry. Founded with a vision to support farmers and enhance crop productivity, PRIDE Seeds has been at the forefront of agricultural advancement, consistently delivering high-quality seed varieties tailored to the unique needs of growers.

Effective fertility and nutrient management begins with a grower understanding each fields' soil type, as this plays a large role in the cation exchange capacity (CEC), which is the main tool for managing nitrogen holding capacity and will impact fertilizer application timings, says Aidan Filipchuk of PRIDE Seeds.

In this Corn School, Aidan Filipchuk of PRIDE Seeds explains that tillers can be a sign of ideal growing conditions. A lot of sunlight and an abundance of nutrients is one of three potential causes. Another source of tillers, otherwise known as suckers, is early stress in the corn. Wind, hail, insects, or being run over by the sprayer, can all cause stress to the emerging plants.

As the 2024 Ontario corn crop races to the finish line with help from a late summer stretch of hot weather, growers are now seeing the challenges created by spring planting conditions and pest and disease pressures. In some parts of the province, growers were able to get corn in the ground in late April, but wet conditions pushed a good portion of provincial planting into late May and well into June in some areas. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Corn School, host Bernard Tobin and PRIDE Seeds agronomist Olivia Noorenberghe discuss the 2024 corn crop and how the lengthy planting window, and the widespread variability it’s created, will impact harvest.

Corn rootworm (CRW) has become an increasingly prevalent pest for Ontario and Quebec continuous corn growers. Significant yield losses can occur from CRW larvae, as feeding larvae will clip the corn plant’s roots which causes inhibition of water and nutrient uptake early on, as well as lodging later in season. It is estimated that up to 18% yield loss can be expected per node of roots clipped1.

On this episode of the RealAgriculture Corn School, host Bernard Tobin is joined by PRIDE Seeds product manager Matt Chapple for a look at what seed companies can do to test for ear rot susceptibility to ensure hybrids have a strong defence against ear mould.

With recent showers, extended periods of overcast and humidity, we should be aware to scout corn fields that have faced extended periods of leaf wetness and helped support the infection of the Tar Spot disease in Southern Ontario this season.

Sunlight is important for photosynthesis and carbohydrate production. The wildfires across Canada have caused a week of hazy overcast weather in the early V1-V6 stage. Reduced light intensity and increased ozone levels are two main factors that affect corn and soybean photosynthesis and may be impacted by the wildfires.

Dave DenBoer, Product Development Manager for PRIDE Seeds discusses the various tests he does as he scouts grain corn fields. It is important to make sure you have good intactness in your stocks. These test help to determine when to harvest your field.

Dave DenBoer, Product Development Manager talks about anthracnose and how to identify and when to consider harvesting your corn crop.

Dave DenBoer, Product Development Manager talks about the importance of scouting your field for tar spot and when to harvest.

This article discusses the six stages of grain fill.

The PRIDE Seeds product line is derived for a global breeding and testing program designed to develop and select best-in-class corn hybrids. Matching best-in-class genetics with farm-best trait and treatment technologies optimizes and mitigates many of the risks associated with crop production.

It is sometimes difficult to control certain weeds, even with glyphosate. What can explain the low effectiveness of glyphosate?

During the mid to late vegetative stages of crop development, that nearly all water uptake is done by the nodal root system. The initial root system the corn developed as a seedling, is no longer providing the plant with substantial water or nutrients and from approximately V3 and onward the nodal root system is doing the majority of nutrient and water uptake.

“Even emergence is key.” This 4-word phase is critical for maximizing yield potential and it’s probably one the top five most common phases I use as a MDA. This season, I wanted to take a closer look at the value of even emergence and how yield is influence.