Maize Variety Guide 2023.pdf

Very early maturing varieties
Augustus (FAO 160) - Excellent forage quality, combining high plant digestibility, energy and starch.
Duxxbury (FAO 160) - Excellent forage quality, combining high plant digestibility, energy and starch.
Perez (FAO 160) - Combines superb yield with long and large cobs, ideal for sowing on less favourable sites.
P7179 (FAO 165) - New for 2023, delivers higher dry matter yields, grain yields and starch content within its maturity class.

Early maturing varieties
Prospect (FAO 170) - Top variety on the less favourable BSPB site list for dry matter yield, cell wall digestibility, starch yield, ME content and ME yield.
Autens (FAO 170) - Well established and offers consistent yield performance and high kernel content for proven starch yield in favourable areas.
Debalto (FAO 170) - Multi use variety for forage CCM and biogas, offers high starch yields, high grain density and lower ear insertion height for better agronomic stability.
Ability (FAO 180) - Now on the first-choice list for favourable sites, with strong ME yields from the reliable Limagrain breeding programme.
P7034 (FAO 180) - Unique early flowering dent starch textured hybrid that is adapted to nearly all the maize growing areas of the country.

Intermediate maturing varieties
P7524 (FAO 200) - Popular and consistent hybrid with a tall growth habit, able to produce high quality early to mature silage as well as significant biogas yields.
DK2684 (FAO 200) - Top yielding hybrid from Bayer/Dekalb aimed at delivering reliable, good quality biogas and milk production.
Movanna (FAO 210) - Consistent performing intermediate variety suitable for both forage and biogas production, good agronomics and standing power.
Keops (FAO 210) - Significant yield potential on favourable sites for multi-use silage or biogas production.
P7948 (FAO 220) - Multi-purpose large stature hybrid giving high yields of quality forage suitable for livestock and biogas production and high grain yield when combined.

Late maturing varieties
Petroschka (FAO 230) - High yielding later maturing hybrid featured on the 2023 BSPB/NIAB descriptive list for biogas production for very favourable sites.
Neutrino (FAO 230) - Outstanding energy and dry matter yields, tall hybrid with good vigour and standing, suitable for all soils and very favourable sites.
RGT Indexx (FAO 230/240) - Our most consistent performing late maturing biogas variety which continues to produce high yields on more favourable eastern region sites.