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DEKALB Silage Ready Corn Seed

All DEKALB® corn seed is tested for silage qualities such as nutrition, digestibility, tonnage and regional agronomic fit through extensive field testing across Canada after commercialization. The DEKALB Silage Ready™ brand provides great performing seed with the potential to produce high quality silage and high milk yield potential per acre or beef yield per acre.

DEKALB Silage Ready seeds are all dual-purpose products that can either be harvested for grain or silage, giving you great flexibility of use at the end of the season.

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Key Benefits

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Excellent Characteristics

DEKALB Silage Ready seed features outstanding NDF digestibility, nutritional quality and high tonnage potential to maximize your herds productivity.

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Strong Agronomics

Silage Ready products are rigorously tested to meet our high-quality forage standards of nutritional value per ton, milk or beef per acre and percentage starch. The exclusive genetics of DEKALB Silage Ready products create high-quality feed that can improve your performance potential.

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Exclusive Genetic Diversity

The DEKALB silage portfolio features a wide variety of products from a diverse germplasm to achieve high yield potential while offering flexibility and dependable performance.

Choosing the DEKALB Silage Ready Seed for You

DEKALB corn seeds are the result of over a hundred years of breeding and genetic research. This has produced seed that is tailored to perform exceptionally well in specific regions.

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Crop Heat Units
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Crop Heat Units (CHU) provides an indexing system to assist farmers to select the most suitable hybrids and varieties for their area For a shorter growing season, varieties with a lower CHU should be selected in order to optimize yield and reach maturity before a killing frost occurs.
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Maturity
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Relative maturity (RM) can be used to compare product’s maturity to existing products in the DEKALB lineup. The relative maturity of a hybrid is assessed by comparing the harvest maturity to established products with known RM ratings in their adapted geographies.
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Refers to the provinces where varieties are available for purchase.
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Seed Traits have been genetically encoded into the plant’s DNA. The result is that the crop is engineered to be resistant to certain insect pests, pathogens and/or herbicides in order to protect the crop and increase quality and yield.
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CHU Range: 1800 - 2000
Maturity: 71
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  • High starch content and high fibre digestibility
  • Semi-fixed ear hybrid can be planted at high populations for full yield potential
  • Very good ratio between yield and Milk per Tonne test results
CHU Range: 1825 - 2050
Maturity: 74
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  • High starch content and high fibre digestibility
  • Fixed ear hybrid can be planted at high populations for full yield potential
  • Very good ratio between yield and Milk per Tonne test results
CHU Range: 1925 - 2100
Maturity: 76
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  • High tonnage potential for its maturity and excellent safety profile to help manage early frost
  • Very good ratio between yield and Milk per Tonne test results
  • Excellent agronomic characteristics and seedling vigour
CHU Range: 1950 - 2150
Maturity: 78
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  • Well-balanced for silage yield potential and nutritional attributes
  • Medium statured plant that has strong drought tolerance for consistent performance
  • Excellent starch content
CHU Range: 2125 - 2300
Maturity: 81
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  • Very tall and impressive silage hybrid suitable for areas of 2125 CHU and above
  • High yield potential and high fibre digestibility
  • Matures more slowly and offers a wide harvest window
CHU Range: 2375 - 2525
Maturity: 86
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  • Excellent silage quality potential and fibre digestibility
  • Very good starch content
  • Strong silage yield potential
CHU Range: 2425 - 2625
Maturity: 88
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  • Trecepta RIB Complete for Western bean cutworm control 
  • Excellent emergence and seedling vigour 
  • Moves well East to West within the 85-90 RM band 
CHU Range: 2450 - 2625
Maturity: 89
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  • Excellent starch content
  • Excellent Milk per Acre potential
  • Great vigour and emergence make it a good fit for early planting
CHU Range: 2450 - 2625
Maturity: 89
VT Double PRO RIB Complete Logo Silage Ready Logo
  • Excellent silage yield potential
  • Excellent starch content
  • Excellent Milk per Acre potential
CHU Range: 2575 - 2725
Maturity: 92
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  • Tall hybrid with excellent tonnage potential
  • Excellent silage fit measuring well for tonnage potential, quality potential and digestibility
  • Widely adaptable hybrid with consistent performance
CHU Range: 2575 - 2725
Maturity: 92
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  • Tall hybrid with excellent tonnage potential and a semi-flex ear that allows for moderate plant populations
  • Excellent silage fit measuring well for tonnage potential, quality potential and digestibility
  • Excellent trait and agronomic package make it a good fit for corn-on-corn rotations
CHU Range: 2600 - 2750
Maturity: 94
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  • Demonstrated consistently strong and superior performance for Milk per Tonne and Milk per Acre
  • Excellent amount of fibre with high digestibility of NDF
  • Excellent starch content
CHU Range: 2650 - 2800
Maturity: 95
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  • Excellent seedling vigour and emergence for early planting
  • Excellent staygreen provides a wider harvest window
  • Superior silage yield potential combined with excellent silage quality potential
CHU Range: 2625 - 2800
Maturity: 96
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  • Exceptional silage performance for tonnage potential and quality potential
  • Provides both higher than average Milk per Acre and Milk per Tonne in this maturity
  • Excellent starch content and amount of fibre with high digestibility of fibres (NDF)
CHU Range: 2700 - 2875
Maturity: 98
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  • Medium-tall plant with excellent drought tolerance for consistent silage yield potential
  • Trait and agronomic package make it a good fit for corn-on-corn rotations
  • Strong tar spot tolerance and late-season plant health
CHU Range: 2700 - 2875
Maturity: 98
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  • Medium-tall hybrid that offers consistent tonnage potential and quality potential in corn-on-corn rotations
  • Great agronomic package that offers strong emergence and spring vigour
  • Very good drought tolerance
CHU Range: 2725 - 2900
Maturity: 99
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  • Very tall hybrid that offers very good tonnage potential with above average starch and digestibility
  • Excellent drought tolerance and good late-season disease tolerance, particularly against gibberella ear rot
  • Strong agronomic characteristics make this a consistently high-quality potential silage, year after year
CHU Range: 2800 - 3000
Maturity: 101
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  • Excellent top end yield potential
  • Shorter plant stature with good agronomics and late-season staygreen
  • Good stalk strength
CHU Range: 2875 - 3025
Maturity: 102
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  • Strong emergence and seedling vigour scores favour an early planting into fit conditions
  • Strong drought tolerance
  • Excellent late-season staygreen increases the harvest timing window
CHU Range: 2900 - 3050
Maturity: 104
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  • Excellent silage yield, milk per acre and starch content potential
  • Performs well at harvest, with excellent drydown and test weight
  • Excellent drought tolerance
CHU Range: 3000 - 3150
Maturity: 106
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  • Very good milk quality product
  • Very nice harvest appearance and strong stalks
  • Good silage yield potential
CHU Range: 3050 - 3175
Maturity: 108
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  • Medium-height hybrid that offers consistent tonnage potential and quality potential in corn-on-corn rotations
  • Target mid range populations for best performance with a semi-flex ear type
  • Keep management high to maximize product performance potential
CHU Range: 3075 - 3200
Maturity: 109
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  • Excellent drought tolerance and consistent ear development even under stress
  • Push plant populations to maximize silage yield potential
  • Excellent silage yield potential and silage quality potential
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  • VT Double PRO® dual mode, protects against corn earworm and other above ground pests.
  • Trecepta® RIB Complete® combines three different modes of action for broad spectrum pest control.
  • SmartStax® protects against rootworm and above ground pests like corn earworm.

Trial Data

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See how DEKALB Silage Ready seed performs in your area

Our corn seed is extensively tested for performance. Use our Seed Trial Data to discover the best seed for your location.

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1 Source: 5 Canada Market Development trials (2020).
2 Source: 6 Canada Market Development trials (2020).
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