John McKillop, a respected agribusiness leader, is to become a board advisor to Brisbane-based silicon fertiliser start-up, MaxSil Pty Ltd. Following that, Mr McKillop has accepted an invitation to become a director once a cornerstone investor has been secured. Mr McKillop has more than 25 years’ experience as an agribusiness leader across cotton, grain, dairy and red meat industries nationally.

Funded under the Federal Drought Resilient Soils and Landscape project, the trial aimed to test the efficacy of three different silicate fertilisers to increase plant stress tolerance and improve soil characteristics.

Replicated trials just concluded in Western Australia have shown Maximus barley responded well to seed-coated treatments of MaxSil™ silicon fertiliser. On non-limiting soils the trials yielded up to 13 per cent higher than control plots. On acid soils there was a demonstrated increase in yield of 16.6 percent, and on saline-sodic soils there was a yield increase of up to 25 percent.

Brisbane-based silicon fertiliser manufacturer start-up, MaxSil has appointed an experienced sales agronomist to help drive sales and develop new markets nationally.

In a trial crop of barley this month (September) Claire Stevens from Steven’s Farm at Kellerberrin northeast of Perth is looking at the best-ever crop of barley she says her father can remember ever being produced in a saline-affected paddock, registering salt levels of 20 parts per million.

In the video, Claire shows off the MaxSil treated barley, which she explains has a lot less disease, and healthier roots that are purple in colour, which shows that the plant has absorbed toxins from the soil.

MaxSil managing director David Archer visited Naomi Brownrigg from Sellars’ Bananas at Mission Beach, near Tully in Far North Queensland in September 2023 to discover how MaxSil is helping grow disease-free, export-quality bananas.

Vegetable field trials over the decade to 2021 treated with MaxSil’s silicon fertiliser across Queensland, Tasmania, and NSW have shown substantial yield, quality outcomes and overall economic returns.

MaxSil silicon fertiliser has demonstrated substantial yield and biomass enhancements in sugar cane farm trials across Queensland's northern growing regions since 2012. Extensive trials occurred in Tully, Childers, and Bundaberg from 2012 to 2018. Notably, trials in Tully during 2012 resulted in growers purchasing MaxSil due to the observed benefits.

NEW analysis by a United States- based accredited laboratory has revealed an almost doubling of the plant available or soluble silicon content following the release in April of an improved MaxSil silicon plant nutrient with finer particles at its new Brendale factory in Brisbane, Queensland. (Courtesy of Farm Weekly)

Libby Price from Ace Radio’s Country Today in Victoria talks to David Archer managing director of MaxSil about the latest findings which show the silicon fertiliser’s increased potency in facilitating plant nutrient uptake, and remediation of salt-affected soils.

PRESS RELEASE APRIL 2023

MaxSil PTY LTD commences production of it’s patented Silicon Fertilser. A win-win for Australian Agriculture and the Environment.

The Rural News rural reporter Katie Fuller recently caught up with MaxSil managing director David Archer following the commencement of production of MaxSil's silicon-based fertiliser in April.

Ace Radio's Country Today presenter Libby Price speaks to MaxSil managing director David Archer following the opening of MaxSil's production plant in Brisbane in April.

MaxSil secures an industrial site in Brendale, North of Brisbane, for the construction of its processing plant.