WAXY-MAIZ is the name MOEWS has given to its varieties of high yielding waxy corn hybrids.

Waxy dent corn starts, grows and matures the same as yellow dent corn of similar breeding. The only significant difference is inside the kernels. And a chemical test is necessary to differentiate between waxy and yellow dent corn. In waxy dent corn, the starch portion of the endosperm is composed only of amylopectin molecules. Yellow dent corn is a mixture of roughly 75% amylopectin and 25% amylose.

WAXY corn was grown primarily as a specialty crop under contract to wet millers. Its starch properties are useful for thickening pies, soups, baby food and other processed food and industrial materials. Now, because of outstanding results, many livestock feeders and dairymen are including WAXY corn in their feeding rations.

University and on-the-farm feeding trials show that waxy corn can boost daily livestock gains by as much as 10% with 7% improved feed efficiency. These trails have been mostly on beef cattle and hogs, with some work with sheep and poultry. Amylopectin molecules in waxy corn contain as much as 40 times as many glucose units as amylose molecules in regular corn.

Because of Moews Seed Company’s intensive, long-term development program, the performance of WAXY-MAIZ hybrids is outstanding. They perform as well as yellow dent hybrids in yield, standability, test weight, protein content, drought and disease resistance. Farmers have found that WAXY-MAIZ hybrids consistently produce heavier test weights than yellow dent corn and protein values are usually higher then yellow dent corn of similar maturity.