What our Members Say

Working with the Maize Growers Association and its members gives ourselves, as innovative maize seed breeders, unparalleled information about maize grower needs and how the market is developing. The MGA Conference is both interesting and a great targeted way of speaking to customers old and new. 

Creedy Associates Ltd has a proud 30-year history of working with the Maize Growers Association (MGA). We greatly value the MGA’s independence, grower-led structure, and single-crop focus—all of which ensure that its research and development programme produces unbiased, evidence-based findings, whether positive or negative. We believe the MGA plays a vital role in highlighting the many inherent benefits of maize, including its low input requirements, reduced carbon footprint, and its value as an excellent feedstock for both livestock and biogas production. Through strong relationships with key stakeholders and a commitment to practical trials and demonstration projects, the MGA also tackles the challenges associated with maize production head-on.

BSPB are not members of the Maize Growers’ Association, however through our own members representation on the Council, the MGA help support the Maize Eyespot (Kabatiella resistance testing) nursery that Niab grow and organise on our behalf to be able to publish ratings on the Maize Descriptive Lists; and in recognition of the funding they have kindly given to support the testing since it was started, their logo appears on the published Descriptive Lists.

Any organisation which is farmer led has a strong reputation and credibility behind it, and as a key crop protection and service provider to the UK maize industry, Bayer is delighted to work with the MGA. It is an excellent forum for independent maize research trials facilitating unbiased work to be conducted with products from all manufacturers to generate independent results, and it does help to promote a Bayer product which has been tested by the MGA. We enjoy attending the annual MGA Conference to network within the industry, hear the latest results from MGA research and listen to impactful presentations.

As suppliers of key agricultural equipment to the sector, it is important to get close to our customers, the maize farmers, and we find that the MGA and their informative conference is a really useful way of speaking to them.

"Since its inception, the MGA has been able to provide one of the only truly independent source of information. In this highly volatile market for feeds, information can quickly become out of date, and hence can easily be taken out of context.

I feel that MGA membership is a must, and you can expect payback on very few acres of maize. I have a special interest in Grain Maize and I feel that this crop has an exciting future. We also seem to be experiencing some of the possible benefits of climate change and crops such as maize will continue to form an increasingly important part of the rotation."

"We have grown maize on a small scale for many years without being members, and joined as our acreage increased for feeding our biogas plant. We find we recoup the value of the membership fee (think of it as a fraction of a trailer load of maize!) after a short while at the first event of the year we attend. We find that the nitrogen prediction service saves us considerably, and appreciate the advice on variety choice.

The MGA is small enough to be able to know people, but large enough to have access to excellent technical support; we wish we had joined years ago."

"As we move into an era of tightening global commodity stocks, the ability to produce more from our own resources will be increasingly important. In the right situation maize can have a key role to play in this, whether it be forage maize, grain maize or one of the other variants of the crop. Growing the crop to the best of our ability and to the highest standards of environmental practice are key requisites for producing a low cost, high quality crop that meets the requirements of the final user.

The MGA continues to be the leading provider of unbiased, sensible and pragmatic advice for maize growers and does so at a very low cost. The combination of timely mailings, telephone support, farm visits and demonstrations provide valuable advice which has benefitted our business considerably over the years – I would not want to be without it."

"My journey with the MGA has taken me from producing the best quality maize silage for my dairy herd to building a biogas plant that runs purely on maize silage.

The MGA recognises the need for research and development in the biogas field and has put trials in place to meet this new exciting opportunity for maize production in the UK.

The MGA is run by 'Growers for Growers' so its practical approach with timely newsletters makes me feel always in touch with the latest techniques and thinking with respect to quality cost effective maize growing."