Vote Praxidyn for 2026 CropLife IRON Product of the Year — and Meet Mixmate Pro

Two favors and a plant: the new praxidyn.com launches this week, voting opens Friday, and Mixmate Pro brings affordable, legal-for-trade automation to the co-op mixing plant.

By Doug Applegate, Praxidyn · September 28, 2026 · 4 min read

If you’ve ever sat in line at the co-op waiting on a hot load while the sprayer idled and the weather window closed, this month’s column is for you. But first, two quick things.

1. The new praxidyn.com goes live this week

The new praxidyn.com will be live by the end of the week. It’s cleaner, faster, and has a two-minute quiz that recommends a Mixmate setup for your operation. If you want a quote, it puts you in touch with a dealer. Until it launches, you can see the full Mixmate lineup, video and contact details on our Praxidyn Mixmate page.

Visit the Praxidyn Mixmate page →

2. Vote for Praxidyn: 2026 CropLife IRON Product of the Year

And I’m asking a favor. From Friday, October 2 through October 30, CropLife is taking votes for the 2026 CropLife IRON Product of the Year. Praxidyn is a small family-owned company from Avoca, Iowa, up against some very big names. It takes about a minute, and it means a great deal to a family that built its first prototype in the farm shop.

✔ Cast your vote for Praxidyn

“It takes about a minute, and it means a great deal to a family that built its first prototype in the farm shop.”

Back to that line at the co-op

You know Mixmate from the field. Most of you know it from the tender trailer or the shed: a jug on the cone, a load mixed in minutes, records that keep themselves. What fewer people know is that the same system runs full stationary mixing plants, and this fall we’re putting a name on that side of the business.

What is Mixmate Pro?

Mixmate Pro is Praxidyn’s commercial, legal-for-trade line of Mixmate mixing systems for stationary plants. It runs on the same patented inductors and the same simple app as the Mixmate units farmers already use in the field, connected to the office, and scales from a single drone batch up to million-gallon fertilizer tanks.

Why should a farmer care? Two reasons.

1. Faster hot loads from your co-op

If you have an investment in a cooperative, you have a stake in how fast loads come out of that plant. A Mixmate Pro plant keeps the retailer’s sprayers productive and gets hot loads out the door faster, so you’re not sitting in line. And because it costs a fraction of a traditional plant or custom-built system, it’s automation a local retail location can actually afford. I can’t emphasize that last part enough.

2. A stationary plant of your own

If you need a stationary plant of your own, that’s something Mixmate can easily do.

What makes Mixmate different from other mixing systems?

Mixmate is not a me-too product. Here’s what sets it apart:

• Patented inductors, unique in the world. No other system handles jugs and dry products the way Mixmate does.
• One system, field to plant. The same system that runs in the field runs the plant, with the same simple app, connected to the office. There is no second system to learn.
• Scales from a drone to a million gallons. From a single batch for a drone up to million-gallon fertilizer tanks.
• NTEP-certified, legal-for-trade options. Mixed products can be sold on certified numbers.
• Built from a real need. It came out of a need on our own farm, not a solution looking for a problem.

If your co-op is talking about plant automation, tell them to look at Mixmate Pro. And if you’re in line waiting on a load this fall, you’ll know why.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for spraying with us.