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FOX

This tall silage and energy maize has a medium starch content and a very high cell wall digestibility. FOX is resistant to lodging and and ideal, robust silage maize variety for high ration shares in barns or biogas plants. This variety is also excellent as a secondary crop after a winter cover crop.

Maturity/Usage
Silage maize maturity	Grain maturity	Silage maize	Grain maize	Energy
250	240	+++	+	+++

Description
Variety type	Hybrid form/Grain type
very tall plant with a relatively deep positioned cob	single-cross hybrid/flint maize

Cultivation and agronomic characteristics
Drilling date	Seeding rate silage (plants/m²)	Seeding rate grain (plants/m²)	Location	Lodging resistance
early to medium	8 - 11	/	fresh - medium	high

Yield structure/Quality
Dry matter yield	Energy yield	Starch yield	Starch-%	Digestibility	Biogas	Grain yield
••	••	••	•	••	º	º
Breeder classification: ••• = very good/very high \| •• = good/high \| • = medium

Resistances
Maize smut	Fusarium	Helminthosporium
••	•	••
Breeder classification: ••• = very good/very high \| •• = good/high \| • = medium

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