Miller Hybrids Welcome Book

Our mission is to provide each customer with the
highest quality corn, soybean, and alfalfa seed and

service needed to maximize their profit per acre,
one field at a time.

background

Bob Miller grew up on an Ohio farm and always knew that he would pursue a career in agriculture.

He was actively involved in FFA and 4-H during his youth, and enjoyed spending time looking at corn plots with his uncle
who was a local seed salesman. Observing how different hybrids reacted to differing soil types and weather conditions on his
own family farm sparked an interest in learning more about seed. Naturally, he began his college years studying science,
but like many of his classmates, wasn’t entirely sure where his focus would be until fall of his sophomore year.
In 1974, at the start of his second year at Goshen College, Bob did a study abroad term in Belize, where he worked for six
weeks on a research farm where CIMMYT was evaluating wheat varieties. What once was just the dream of a young Ohio
boy to work in agriculture, developed into a dream to help feed the world by developing new plant varieties that are adapted
to local conditions. During this experience, Bob was able to see some of the challenges locals faced in farming and compared
these to challenges on his farm back home. This dream paved the way for a career in Plant Breeding and Genetics and
eventually to the establishment of Miller Hybrids.
After completing a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Genetics at the University of Illinois, Bob went on to successfully develop
hybrids for two major seed corn companies and lead field research work to improve drought tolerance. During this 23-year
span, Bob purchased three farms so that he could experience the hybrids he developed on his farms, just like you. This desire
to unite a love for farming with plant breeding on a more personal level led to the establishment of Miller Hybrids in 2005. At
Miller Hybrids, we aim to work with you to bring innovative seed solutions to enhance your profitability and sustainability.

vision

Innovation

Listening to your needs and providing improved solutions by testing new products in unique and accurate ways, is the way
forward. The Miller Hybrids approach values independent, real-world research results enough to do the research needed to
help you solve your problems.

Partnerships

Just like hitching up a trailer, some things are a whole lot easier when done with a partner. At Miller Hybrids, we partner with
you to understand what works best on your farm and use our research knowledge to provide the correct hybrids and crop
management suggestions that will help maximize the profit potential from your fields.

Sustainability

Hard work, being good observers and listeners, and continuously implementing improvements will sustain us. A sustainability
goal at Miller Hybrids is to continually learn and improve on what we do, so we have a positive impact on our families, our
employees, our vendors, our communities, our customers and all the people we encounter. As a company, keeping you in
business keeps us in business and we are dedicated to helping sustain you in every way we can.

innovation

Understanding our customer’s needs and using research to ensure we continually provide
cutting edge products to meet your needs, now and in the future, is at the heart of our
company.
You deserve personalized hybrid placement recommendations for each of your unique fields
as well as recommendations on planting populations, nitrogen use, fungicide and insecticide
use or other specific questions. By conducting and analyzing our own research and the
research of our partnering genetic and trait providers and carefully observing what works
best on your farms, together we can help take the mystery out of knowing why problems
could arise and identify what to do to fix them or avoid them all together.

“Never stop, the next great idea is
sometimes just around the corner.”

“You could do it too. There’s no magic in
research. Most people just have other things
they’d rather be doing. Well, we don’t.”

research

Research at Miller Hybrids is a long, at up to 7 locations around soybean trait options, as well
serious, year-round business. the Midwest. Only the center as conventional and blended
Research done at Miller Hybrids 4 rows are harvested for yield Proline™ soybeans, so we can
has produced 14 new, unique to ensure hybrids aren’t biased meet your needs.
commercial corn hybrids by interacting with each other, We observe the response of corn
containing parent lines recently as that is the biggest source of hybrids to different levels of
patented by Bob Miller. This is a error in many of our competitors wind, fertility, moisture, disease
win for you because you’ll have or publicly conducted trials. We and insect stresses during
access to a larger pool of select also test hybrids across diverse the growing season. We then
genetic varieties which have soil types and north and south of combine yield data with the
been tested in situations you their maturity zone, to minimize previously observed agronomic
encounter in your fields. year by hybrid interactions. data to select elite hybrids that
Each year, 70+ acres of corn We are unique in that hybrids will work best for your fields and
research plots, containing at all development stages are farming practices. Multiple year
more than 1000 hybrids, are annually grown in one or 2 data is used to promote new
evaluated in self-bordered plots. locations in corn-on-corn plots, to products and reposition current
Approximately 150 corn hybrids pick hybrids with great stability products, which can provide
are tested annually in our for continuous corn fields. We you with both high yield and
most advanced tests involving also evaluate soybean varieties yield stability for your specific
replicated 8-row plots, 40 feet in replicated 8-row, 40 foot fields.
plots. We try to test all new

partnerships

“We want to work together and
trust that it’s the true way forward.”

Working together with your best lineup. We also partner with Miller Hybrids you can choose
interest in mind, is what Miller Hybrids Alforex® seed for outstanding the right genetics and traits to
is all about. We’ve partnered as a Hybrid and conventional alfalfa tackle your weed and insect
company with Roeschley Hybrids varieties and work with several challenges, as well as the specific
to be the exclusive distributor of partners on grasses and cover soil limitations and the fertility
a specially selected set of high- crops. issues that you deal with in your
performing Genuity® traited corn and Just as our partnerships with other fields. When a grower partners
soybean varieties. The Miller Hybrids seed and trait providers gives us with Miller Hybrids on their seed
brand offers all the other available an advantage as a seed company order, a wealth of knowledge
trait and genetic options which our to meet our customers’ diverse goes into a recommendation of
customers want, including a strong needs, when you partner with what to plant.
conventional corn and soybean

The essence of sustainability is helping growers like you to sustainability
be the most profitable and productive farmers you can be,
now and in the future. Together, you and Miller Hybrids
must both continually improve our understanding of the
many limiting yield and profitability factors affecting your
farm and implement cutting edge solutions, including the
best varieties to overcome those limitations. When your
return on investment is maximized, that will allow both
Miller Hybrids and you and your children, a successful
future as partners in feeding the world.

2016

2012 Expanded to Dakotas,
NE Nebraska and SW
MN; Launched exclusive

Proline™ blended
soybean lineup

2010 Sales force spread to
IL & WI

2005 Moved into new office 2014
and warehouse near
Miller Hybrids First 3 patents granted
Established Kalona, Iowa for parent lines from

2011 Miller Hybrids Research

2006 Expanded operation into
additional building space

Research Program Started

2030*

Miller Hybrids
non-profit hunger relief
program up and running

2027*

2020* 75% sales done on
onlineseedsales.com
Research division
expands to include Miller Hybrids
plots in all selling Research and Sales

states Territory

2018 2022*

Main warehouse 2019* Research licensing
expanded revenues exceed
$1 million, use to reduce
2017 customer cost and
increase research effort.
Established Wisconsin
and western Iowa Hire agronomist to Miller Hybrids
warehouses service internet sales Main Office

looking ahead

“Each sunrise brings the challenges of the
day ahead but it also reminds us of the
blessing that each day is and what we work
for in the future.”

* Projected goal, subject to change

moving forward

To move from where you are to where you
want to be in the future, you need to be
proactive. We can help by sitting down
together and planning how to take your farm
to the next level. Beyond planning, we can
offer some of the best products available,
great seed quality and the service you need
to help you get through tough times.

products

It’s not just seed. Miller Hybrids spends a lot of
time and energy identifying the best products
available to be included in our line-up. The
options you see and hear about from Miller
Hybrids have been selected from the best of
the very best. They are the winners of multi-
year trials and have shown their stamina
over time. You can put your trust in the Miller
Hybrids picks again and again.
We offer an incredible line-up, including a
great range of traits and genetic options:
conventional hybrids, herbicide and insect
tolerant varieties, and a diversity of genetics
that provide the opportunity for one of the
Miller Hybrids products to find a home on any
farm in the Midwest.

treatments

Seed treatments can take seed protection
to another level. The SHIELDCoat™ seed
treatment umbrella was launched by
Miller Hybrids in 2014. SHIELDCoat™ utilizes
excellent fungicides and insecticides for corn
and soybeans and in most cases contains
a soybean inoculant on soybeans. It can
be further enhanced with optional cyst
nematode and SDS treatments. SHIELDCoat™
helps maximize yield by enhancing
germination and the early days of plant
growth and development and all treated
seed is backed by a 100% replant guarantee.

loyalty discount volume discount early pay discount

We appreciate the loyalty of The more acres you can When you as a grower can
our growers and want to show plant with Miller Hybrids as purchase early, you can
you how much it means to us. a grower, the less shipping save money and ensure
A loyalty discount on retail cost and other overhead the desired products for
priced units is available for we have and the more time your farm will be available.
our returning customers and we have to spend learning Throughout the year,
it is maximized when you are what works best on your Miller Hybrids has different
a 100% customer. When you fields. We pass along those deadlines that can help
choose to work with Miller savings to you in a volume you save as much as 12%
Hybrids, time and again, it’s discount. off your order. If cash flow
a testament that we’re doing is tight, Miller Hybrids has
something right and we are a number of financing
truly grateful to get to work options that can help you
with you year after year. save money in the long run.

commitment

We’re committed to working with you, where you are, and
getting you the best price we can. Every farmer. Every day.

replant policy financing options overstock pricing

The Miller Hybrids John Deere Financial and When we have too much
SHIELDCoat™ seed local bank financing options seed of specific hybrids, these
treatment mix is a great may be available to you, hybrids may be offered at
package of seed treatments so you can lock in the best bottom line prices of up to 40%
comprised of industry products in a timely fashion, off retail. These products have
leading fungicides and even when cash flow is guaranteed seed quality, but
insecticides to provide tight. We’ve negotiated with are non-returnable and do
enhanced protection to various banking institutions not qualify for any additional
the seed and seedling to get low interest rate options discounts. If ordered in
during these vulnerable that have your best interest in combination with retail
stages. When you treat with mind. priced items, discounts will
only apply to retail items.
SHIELDCoat™ you receive a
100% replant guarantee.

thank you

Thank you for considering Miller Hybrids.

When you choose to work with Miller Hybrids you
are choosing to work with a small, family owned
and operated business. Miller Hybrids takes on the
same challenges as the big ag industry, but focuses
on pleasing its customers, not its shareholders. You
are choosing to promote local community growth
by keeping your dollars in the Midwest, where your
children and your grandchildren will benefit.
Bob and Pam Miller and the Miller Hybrids team,
have been working hard since 2005 to make Miller
Hybrids an outstanding choice for farm families in
Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, South Dakota, Michigan
and adjacent states. We thank you, because our
success in the past, present, and future is strictly
because of you and your success. We do not take
lightly your willingness to partner with the Miller
Hybrids team and hope you continue to see Miller
Hybrids as a quality farmer-focused seed company
alternative to the billion dollar seed companies
with shareholders as their focus.
Our guiding principles of Innovation, Partnership,
and Sustainability help us grow one farmer at
a time and we hope you’ll consider being our
next successful partner, if you are not already a
customer.
Hoping that you have a good crop and a safe
season no matter where you go for seed this year,
Thank You,
Bob and Pam Miller and the Miller Hybrids Team