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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.
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Rapid youth development
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Highest starch yields and contents
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Very good DM yield
General
| Usage |
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| 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
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| Usage |
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|---|---|---|
| Silo mature | ultra early | |
| Grain maturity | ultra early | |
| Maturity forage | ca. 180 | |
| Maturity grain | ca. 180 | |
| Type of grain | flint | |
| Hybrid | Single-cross | |
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Sowing date
early
0
late
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Yield information
| Dry matter content at harvest (%) Favourable | 34.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Dry matter yield (t/ha) Favourable | 17.6 | |
| Dry matter yield (% of 4 and 5 year varieties) Favourable | 96 | |
| ME of fresh plant at harvest (MJ/kg dry matter) Favourable | 11.56 | |
| ME yield of fresh plant at harvest (1000s MJ/ha) Favourable | 204 | |
| Starch content of whole plant at harvest (%) Favourable | 33.6 | |
| Starch yield of whole plant at harvest (t/ha) Favourable | 5.92 | |
| Cell wall digestibility (%) Favourable | 57.3 | |
| Dry matter content at harvest (%) Less favourable | 34.4 | |
| Dry matter yield (t/ha) Less favourable | 17.4 | |
| Dry matter yield (% of 4 and 5 year varieties) Less favourable | 96 | |
| ME of fresh plant at harvest (MJ/kg dry matter) Less favourable | 11.53 | |
| ME yield of fresh plant at harvest (1000s MJ/ha) Less favourable | 201 | |
| Starch content of whole plant at harvest (%) Less favourable | 35.2 | |
| Starch yield of whole plant at harvest (t/ha) Less favourable | 6.15 | |
| Cell wall digestibility (%) Less favourable | 56.7 | |
| Dry matter content at harvest (%) Favourable | 34.1 | |
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| Dry matter yield (t/ha) Favourable | 17.6 | |
| Dry matter yield (% of 4 and 5 year varieties) Favourable | 96 | |
| ME of fresh plant at harvest (MJ/kg dry matter) Favourable | 11.56 | |
| ME yield of fresh plant at harvest (1000s MJ/ha) Favourable | 204 | |
| Starch content of whole plant at harvest (%) Favourable | 33.6 | |
| Starch yield of whole plant at harvest (t/ha) Favourable | 5.92 | |
| Cell wall digestibility (%) Favourable | 57.3 | |
| Dry matter content at harvest (%) Less favourable | 34.4 | |
| Dry matter yield (t/ha) Less favourable | 17.4 | |
| Dry matter yield (% of 4 and 5 year varieties) Less favourable | 96 | |
| ME of fresh plant at harvest (MJ/kg dry matter) Less favourable | 11.53 | |
| ME yield of fresh plant at harvest (1000s MJ/ha) Less favourable | 201 | |
| Starch content of whole plant at harvest (%) Less favourable | 35.2 | |
| Starch yield of whole plant at harvest (t/ha) Less favourable | 6.15 | |
| Cell wall digestibility (%) Less favourable | 56.7 | |
Agronomics Features
| Early Vigour Favourable |
7
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|---|---|---|
| Standing power at harvest (root lodging) Favourable |
8
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| Leaf senescence Favourable |
6
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| Eyespot rating Favourable |
4
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| Early Vigour Less favourable |
7
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| Standing power at harvest (root lodging) Less favourable |
8
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| Leaf senescence Less favourable |
6
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| Eyespot rating Less favourable |
4
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Data Source: BSPB 2026 Forage Maize Descriptive List
Breeder classification: +++ = very good / very high | ++ = good / high | + = medium
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Early Vigour Favourable
7
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Standing power at harvest (root lodging) Favourable
8
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Leaf senescence Favourable
6
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Eyespot rating Favourable
4
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Early Vigour Less favourable
7
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Standing power at harvest (root lodging) Less favourable
8
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Leaf senescence Less favourable
6
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Eyespot rating Less favourable
4
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Data Source: BSPB 2026 Forage Maize Descriptive List
Breeder classification: +++ = very good / very high | ++ = good / high | + = medium
Resistance to diseases
| Maize smut |
+
+
+
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| Helminthosporium |
+
+
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Maize smut
+
+
+
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Helminthosporium
+
+
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Location
| Limited areas |
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| Soil type |
heavy
0
light
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| Humidity |
wet
0
dry
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| Limited areas |
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Soil type
heavy
0
light
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Humidity
wet
0
dry
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