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This way you can avoid drought in maize cultivation
Leaves that curl up, plants that are stunted in growth and cobs that are poorly filled or even missing altogether. These are all consequences of drought, which has resulted in up to 30% less corn being harvested from the land in recent years. At the same time, this has accelerated the development of drought-tolerant maize varieties.
We recommend varieties that survive better with limited moisture and therefore remain more vital under the label Hydraneo.
Hydraneo varieties offer a solution on drought-sensitive soils and where irrigation is not possible. In at least three years of drought stress, they gave 10% to 20% more yield than a less tolerant variety. Although corn is a subtropical crop, moisture remains essential for growth and cooling. From germination until the crop closes, this need is not very great, but it is during the phase from flowering to grain filling.
Be on the Recommended Varieties List 2024 LG 31.219, LG 32.257 and LG Ashley (grain) the Hydraneo varieties. We expect to introduce more silage maize varieties with Hydraneo in the coming years. Within Europe, growers in seventeen countries now use Hydraneo genetics. The concept has been declared one of the most climate-adaptive innovations of recent years by the magazine European Seed.
Measuring stress tolerance
Hydraneo maize is selected within an international test field network of more than 120 locations in Western and Eastern Europe. We map the stress responses of the different breeds to heat and water shortage every year. By comparing this information with the final yield and quality, we see stress tolerance: the ability of a maize variety to maintain its yield potential under stress conditions.
