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LIKEiT is a high yielding variety with excellent standing power and high disease resistance, offering all things to all growers. With a bold plant and fully enclosed cob, LIKEiT is a dependable heavy yielder for every site and hits the mark as a tri-purpose variety.

Currently listed for both Favourable and Less Favourable sites from the NIAB/BSPB data, LIKEiT offers high dry matter yields and is suitable for forage, AD and grain. Although the variety has a relatively tall growth habit, it develops a well-formed cob that ensures high starch content.

LIKEiT prefers cooler climates, which makes it suitable for a wide range of sites. It has rapid early vigour with huge potential as an early maturing variety. What is more, with a strong disease package that offers tolerance to fusarium and eyespot as well a strong score for lodging, growers have an ideal all‑round performer.

“ Over the last 4 years LIKEiT has consistently proven to be a very versatile and robust hybrid maize variety exhibiting excellent all round, agronomic, quality and yield characteristics in all farm situations, most notably on varying sites with a range of soil conditions. The excellent standing power and disease tolerance, including eyespot and fusarium has combined with an impressively large, fully-enclosed cob making LIKEiT a firm favourite with all our growers.”

Mark Davies, Green Farm Seeds Ltd., Newent, Gloucestershire.

 

  • Rapid youth development
  • Highest starch yields and contents
  • Very good DM yield

General

Usage Silage Grain CCM Energy
Silo mature ultra early
Grain maturity ultra early
Maturity forage ca. 180
Maturity grain ca. 180
Type of grain flint
Hybrid Single-cross
Sowing date
early 0 late
Usage nutzung-silo-en_GB nutzung-korn-en_GB nutzung-mais-en_GB nutzung-gas-en_GB
Silo mature ultra early
Grain maturity ultra early
Maturity forage ca. 180
Maturity grain ca. 180
Type of grain flint
Hybrid Single-cross
Sowing date
early 0 late

Yield information

Dry matter content at harvest (%) Favourable 33.3
Dry matter yield (t/ha) Favourable 18
Dry matter yield (% of 4 and 5 year varieties) Favourable 97
ME of fresh plant at harvest (MJ/kg dry matter) Favourable 11.56
ME yield of fresh plant at harvest (1000s MJ/ha) Favourable 208
Starch content of whole plant at harvest (%) Favourable 32.7
Starch yield of whole plant at harvest (t/ha) Favourable 5.87
Cell wall digestibility (%) Favourable 57.9
Dry matter content at harvest (%) Less favourable 33.5
Dry matter yield (t/ha) Less favourable 17.6
Dry matter yield (% of 4 and 5 year varieties) Less favourable 97
ME of fresh plant at harvest (MJ/kg dry matter) Less favourable 11.55
ME yield of fresh plant at harvest (1000s MJ/ha) Less favourable 204
Starch content of whole plant at harvest (%) Less favourable 34
Starch yield of whole plant at harvest (t/ha) Less favourable 5.99
Cell wall digestibility (%) Less favourable 57.4
Dry matter content at harvest (%) Favourable 33.3
Dry matter yield (t/ha) Favourable 18
Dry matter yield (% of 4 and 5 year varieties) Favourable 97
ME of fresh plant at harvest (MJ/kg dry matter) Favourable 11.56
ME yield of fresh plant at harvest (1000s MJ/ha) Favourable 208
Starch content of whole plant at harvest (%) Favourable 32.7
Starch yield of whole plant at harvest (t/ha) Favourable 5.87
Cell wall digestibility (%) Favourable 57.9
Dry matter content at harvest (%) Less favourable 33.5
Dry matter yield (t/ha) Less favourable 17.6
Dry matter yield (% of 4 and 5 year varieties) Less favourable 97
ME of fresh plant at harvest (MJ/kg dry matter) Less favourable 11.55
ME yield of fresh plant at harvest (1000s MJ/ha) Less favourable 204
Starch content of whole plant at harvest (%) Less favourable 34
Starch yield of whole plant at harvest (t/ha) Less favourable 5.99
Cell wall digestibility (%) Less favourable 57.4

Agronomics Features

Early Vigour Favourable
7
Standing power at harvest (root lodging) Favourable
8
Leaf senescence Favourable
7
Eyespot rating Favourable
5
Early Vigour Less favourable
7
Standing power at harvest (root lodging) Less favourable
8
Leaf senescence Less favourable
7
Eyespot rating Less favourable
5

Data Source: BSPB 2025 Forage Maize Descriptive List
Breeder classification: +++ = very good / very high | ++ = good / high | + = medium

Early Vigour Favourable
7
Standing power at harvest (root lodging) Favourable
8
Leaf senescence Favourable
7
Eyespot rating Favourable
5
Early Vigour Less favourable
7
Standing power at harvest (root lodging) Less favourable
8
Leaf senescence Less favourable
7
Eyespot rating Less favourable
5

Data Source: BSPB 2025 Forage Maize Descriptive List
Breeder classification: +++ = very good / very high | ++ = good / high | + = medium

Resistance to diseases

Maize smut
+ + +
Helminthosporium
+ +
Maize smut
+ + +
Helminthosporium
+ +

Location

Limited areas
Soil type
heavy 0 light
Humidity
wet 0 dry
Limited areas
Soil type
heavy 0 light
Humidity
wet 0 dry

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All specified information is given to the best of our knowledge and belief, but without guarantee on completeness and correctness. Despite care we cannot guarantee that the described characteristics are repeatable / comprehensive in agricultural practice in each case. DSV United Kingdom Ltd. excludes adhesion for damage or claims for damages, resulting of the use for the variety specified in this description. Mixture compositions may change if individual varieties are not available. As of 01/2024. Subject to change without notice.