Duke

High yields with the option to harvest earlier for a cash forage crop.

  • Maturity: Early
  • Site Type: Favourable & Less Favourable
  • Sowing Type: Open & Plastic

High yields with the option to harvest earlier for a cash forage crop.

Good early vigour.

Strengths

  • High yields with the option to harvest earlier for a cash forage crop

  • Good yield with very low moisture content

  • Medium yellow kernels and good early vigour

Technical Information

Agronomic Data

FAO140
Yield (t/Ha) @15% MC8.2
Early Vigour6.9
Standing PowerGood
Cob PositionMid

Quality Data

Kernel colour Yellow
Seed size Medium
Moisture content at harvest 28.7%
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Limagrain UK
Rothwell, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, LN7 6DT
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Duke

High yields with the option to harvest earlier for a cash forage crop.

High yields with the option to harvest earlier for a cash forage crop.

Good early vigour.

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Technical information

  • High yields with the option to harvest earlier for a cash forage crop

  • Good yield with very low moisture content

  • Medium yellow kernels and good early vigour

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Agronomic Data

FAO140
Yield (t/Ha) @15% MC8.2
Early Vigour6.9
Standing PowerGood
Cob PositionMid

Data taken from the BSPB/NIAB Descriptive List 2026. On the 1-9 figures (e.g. Early Vigour), high figures indicate strength in this character. Features marked with * are based on Limagrain estimates.

Quality Data

Kernel colour Yellow
Seed size Medium
Moisture content at harvest 28.7%

Data taken from the BSPB/NIAB Descriptive List 2026. On the 1-9 figures (e.g. Early Vigour), high figures indicate strength in this character. Features marked with * are based on Limagrain estimates.

What Our Experts Say

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"Duke delivered exactly what we’d hoped, in terms of starch and dry matter, but most importantly it produced fully ripe cobs well before the end of September.”
Neil & George Morris, Dairy Farmers, Wrexham

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