United Kingdom Products Maize KONTENDER

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The front runner! – Kontender offers top quality very early silage.

For farmers requiring a short season maize variety without compromising forage quality, Kontender offers leading starch values, rivalling ES Regain and Ixxes. Coupled with stable maturity, Kontender is a leading choice for consistently early, high energy maize silage.


Maturity:
  • Forecast NIAB Group 9/10 (Favourable sites) Group 9 (Less Favourable sites)

Characteristics:

  • High yield performance (99% NIAB / 109% KWS Trials)
  • Semi compact plant
  • Versatile in the ration
  • Fast early vigour (7.4) in NIAB NL trials
  • Short growing season

Quality:

  • High starch content (34.7 %)
  • Very high feed value (11.3 ME)
  • Excellent whole plant digestibility (over 70 %)
  • Proven to lay down starch in line with plant dry matter – for maximum feed value

Recommendation:

Kontender is suitable for all maize growing regions, offering stable maturity for all marginal and less favourable areas. Kontender can also be drilled relatively late on all favourable sites, or harvested very early, to bring harvest forward.

In addition Kontender has above average early vigour for ease of establishment on heavier soils.

Drilling information:

  • Less Favourable and Favourable sites 42 - 45,000 seeds / ac (104 - 111,000 seeds / ha)

Data source: NIAB Maize Report Tables (2008) KWS UK Trials (2008)

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