United Kingdom Products Maize KADENZ

KADENZ

The early clamp filler!

Kadenz provides an excellent combination of high energy values and heavy yields, delivering high energy silage time after time. With a balanced starch content, Kadenz is ideal for rations involving a high proportion of maize silage, offering a very high digestible yield for maximum feed intake.


Maturity:
  • NIAB Group 7 (Favourable sites) Group 7 (Less Favourable sites)

Characteristics:

  • Massive yields (over 19t/ha of dry matter in NIAB trials)
  • Reliable harvest maturity (earlier than Award or NK Smile)
  • Stable in a wide range of conditions
  • Large plant type with early cob development
  • Consistently high yields on farm in 2006, 2007 and 2008!

Quality:

  • Benchmark for energy yields (over 200,000 MJ/ha on all NIAB sites)
  • Reliable starch contents (30% on all sites)

Recommendation:

Kadenz is suited to all mainstream maize growing areas. In addition, it can also be grown on intermediate sites as a medium early variety, where a wide harvest window is desired.  Kadenz has early cob development and stable ripening, producing reliable yields, year on year. Kadenz will perform best on light to medium soil types.

Drilling information:

  • Intermediate and Favourable sites 42 - 45,000 seeds / ac (104 - 111,000 seeds / ha)
  • Data source: NIAB Descriptive List (Favourable and Less Favourable) 2010
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