Profile
EXPEDIA produces top quality forage with high yield potential. This stay-green type has excellent digestibility, starch, standing power and strong resistance to eyespot and fusarium.
EXPEDIA is listed as suited to Favourable sites from NIAB / BSPB data and has great silage quality for its class, with excellent starch content (33.1%) and cell wall digestibility (60.5%).
EXPEDIA is the earliest intermediate variety offered by DSV in the UK, making it a great dual-purpose variety suitable for livestock and the biogas sector.
EXPEDIA matures slightly earlier than its sister variety MOVANNA but has the same powerful vigour and strong yields. It has a robust disease profile with a 5.9 for eyespot. It has high early vigour (7.0) and at harvest offers outstanding dry matter yields (18.5t/ha) plus high standing power scored at 7.4.
“ Even throughout a very mixed growing season, EXPEDIA has performed very well on varying sites across the UK to date.
We are confident that EXPEDIA crops will produce high yields of very high quality forage once harvested.”
Ben Lowe, National Forage Product Manager – Agrii Ltd.
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Top quality forage with high yield potential
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Excellent starch content
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Robust disease profile
General
| Usage |
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|---|---|---|
| Silo mature | early | |
| Grain maturity | early | |
| Maturity forage | 200 | |
| Maturity grain | 210 | |
| Type of grain | flint | |
| Hybrid | Single-cross | |
| Sowing date |
early
0
late
|
|
| Usage |
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Silo mature | early | |
| Grain maturity | early | |
| Maturity forage | 200 | |
| Maturity grain | 210 | |
| Type of grain | flint | |
| Hybrid | Single-cross | |
|
Sowing date
early
0
late
|
||
Yield information
| Dry matter content at harvest (%) | 30.8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Dry matter yield (t/ha) | 18.5 | |
| Dry matter yield (% of 4 and 5 year varieties) | 102 | |
| ME of fresh plant at harvest (MJ/kg dry matter) | 11.88 | |
| ME yield of fresh plant at harvest (1000s MJ/ha) | 219 | |
| Starch content of whole plant at harvest (%) | 33.1 | |
| Starch yield of whole plant at harvest (t/ha) | 6.11 | |
| Cell wall digestibility (%) | 60.5 | |
| Dry matter content at harvest (%) | 30.8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Dry matter yield (t/ha) | 18.5 | |
| Dry matter yield (% of 4 and 5 year varieties) | 102 | |
| ME of fresh plant at harvest (MJ/kg dry matter) | 11.88 | |
| ME yield of fresh plant at harvest (1000s MJ/ha) | 219 | |
| Starch content of whole plant at harvest (%) | 33.1 | |
| Starch yield of whole plant at harvest (t/ha) | 6.11 | |
| Cell wall digestibility (%) | 60.5 | |
Agronomics Features
| Early Vigour |
7
|
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|---|---|---|
| Standing power at harvest (root lodging) |
8
|
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| Leaf senescence |
7
|
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| Eyespot rating |
6
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Data Source: BSPB 2021/22 Forage Maize Descriptive List
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Early Vigour
7
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Standing power at harvest (root lodging)
8
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Leaf senescence
7
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Eyespot rating
6
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Data Source: BSPB 2021/22 Forage Maize Descriptive List
Resistance to diseases
| Maize smut |
+
+
|
|---|---|
| Fusarium |
+
+
+
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| Helminthosporium |
+
+
+
|
Breeder classification: +++ = very good / very high | ++ = good / high | + = medium
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Maize smut
+
+
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Fusarium
+
+
+
|
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Helminthosporium
+
+
+
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Breeder classification: +++ = very good / very high | ++ = good / high | + = medium
Location
| Soil type |
heavy
0
light
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|---|---|---|
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Soil type
heavy
0
light
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Sowing
| Forage | 8 - 11 Plants/m² | |
|---|---|---|
| Grain | 7 - 9 Plants/m² | |
| Forage | 8 - 11 Plants/m² | |
|---|---|---|
| Grain | 7 - 9 Plants/m² | |