especially when sown with vetch for autumn sown CSAM2 options.
AberSevern
A new late diploid Perennial Ryegrass, the highest grazing D-Value and ME yield of all grass varieties on the Recommended List available for special mixtures in 2025.
AberThames
A new late diploid Perennial Ryegrass with exceptional growth habit, high D-Value and Crown Rust rating. A great addition to our long term grass mixtures.
AberClaret Red Clover
Following shortages in production, this will be our mainstay Red Clover in our high quality Pro-Nitro performance grass mixtures for 2025. Top performer for production and longevity in our mixtures.
multiple sites.
Marcopolo Early Maize
New outstanding variety from KWS, High Starch, Good standing power, good disease in larger quantities following exceptional performance trials.
LG Sunset Early Maize
An LG Emblem look alike variety, but much ways, better starch, digestibility, yield and Prospect in earliness, but higher yielding on variety in Danish trials.
Nashota
Late Perennial tetraploid ryegrass with improved ratings and energy yields, replaces Calao that the RL.
The varieties in ProCam’s maize portfolio are carefully selected from a range of breeders to ensure optimum performance and reliability for our customers.
Varieties are assessed for several years before they become commercially available, through UK and European national list trials, breeder trials and our own in-house replicated trials and strip trials across the country. Assessing varieties over a longer period and across different sites allows us to assess their stability on difficult sites and confirm their performance in challenging seasons such as the cloudy season of 2024 or the droughty season of 2025.
ULTRA-EARLY VARIETIES
Duke
• FAO — 140/150*
• Early vigour — 7.1
• Standing power — 7.7
• Leaf senescence — 5.8
• Cell wall digestibility — 57.8
• 17.6t DM/ha
• 38.3% starch content
• 6.75t starch/ha
• 11.85 ME (MJ/kg DM)
• 209 GJ ME/ha
Data taken from the BSPB/NIAB descriptive list 2026 favourable sites. *Breeder/Field Options estimates.
Duke, a Limagrain variety, set a new bar for varieties in the ultra-early sector. Suitable for marginal, or short season sites, Duke offers an early harvest without significant yield penalties and takes yield and quality potential in the ultra-early sector to a whole new level.
Excellent feed quality, in the form of high starch content and good digestibility, makes Duke a top performing forage maize variety for livestock. Duke has excellent standing power and good eyespot tolerance. A leading ultra-early variety.
Jardinero
• FAO – 160*
• Early vigour – 7.2
• Cell wall digestibility – 56.8
• 18.4t DM/ha
• 37.2% starch content
• 6.84t starch/ha
• 11.64 ME (MJ/kg DM)
• 214 GJ ME/ha
Data taken from the BSPB/NIAB NL trials. *Breeder/Field Options estimates.
Jardinero is a new ultra-early variety from KWS which sets the bar high for varieties in that maturity sector. A short season finisher with strong early vigour, Jardinero offers an early harvest without significant yield penalties.
Jardinero is really pushing yield potential in the ultra-early sector, making it ideal for AD feedstock production where a spread of maturity and harvest dates is required. Class-leading starch content also makes Jardinero a strong choice for forage production. A no-compromise, ultra-early variety.
Jardinero (July 2025)
VERY EARLY VARIETIES
Sunset
• FAO – 160/170*
• Early vigour – 7.0
• Standing oower – 7.0
• Leaf senescence – 6.5
• Cell wall digestibility – 56.4
• 18.7t DM/ha
• 35.4% starch content
• 6.62t starch/ha
• 11.57 ME (MJ/kg DM)
• 216 GJ ME/ha
Data taken from the BSPB/NIAB NL trials. *Breeder/Field Options estimates.
Sunset is a new very early variety from Limagrain. With excellent feed value in the form of high starch yields and exceptional energy density, Sunset is a top choice for forage maize or crimped grain maize, producing high quality, high energy forage even in the cloudy season of 2024.
An agronomically strong variety with good early vigour and standing power, Sunset has become a market leading variety in Denmark which is sure to prove popular in the UK too.
Prospect
• FAO — 170*
• Early vigour — 7.0
• Standing power — 7.9
• Leaf senescence — 6.8
• Cell wall digestibility — 58.5
• 18.3t DM/ha
• 36.5% starch content
• 6.70t starch/ha
• 11.83 ME (MJ/kg DM)
• 217 GJ ME/ha
Tried and tested, Prospect is a very early variety with good agronomics and excellent feed quality. Better-than-average early vigour and standing power, along with one of the best ratings for eyespot tolerance, make Prospect an agronomically-sound choice.
Prospect delivers incredibly energy dense forage that improves livestock efficiency and output through a combination of high starch content and excellent cell wall digestibility. The perfect all rounder with consistent performance across geographies and seasons.
EARLY VARIETIES
Rodriguez
• FAO – 170/180*
• Early vigour – 6.9
• Standing power – 8.2
• Leaf senescence – 6.8
• Cell wall digestibility – 58.3
• 18.1t DM/ha
• 36.7% starch content
• 6.65t starch/ha
• 11.76 ME (MJ/kg DM)
• 213 GJ ME/ha
Data
Rodriguez is a very stable early variety with reliable early vigour. A stay green type with good eyespot resistance, Rodriguez has shown both strong drought tolerance and impressive cool season performance producing full grain cobs across sites and seasons.
Having originally been bred as an early grain maize variety, Rodriguez performs very well for CCM or crimp to produce high energy feed suitable for dairy or beef, but the balanced starch content also makes Rodriguez an ideal variety for high maize silage inclusion diets.
Highlight
• FAO – 170/180*
• Early vigour – 7.2
• Standing power – 8.0
• Leaf senescence – 7.2
• Cell wall digestibility – 57.8
• 19.57t DM/ha
• 34.2% starch content
• 6.7t starch/ha
• 11.82 ME (MJ/kg DM)
• 231 GJ ME/ha
Highlight is a new very high yielding early variety from Limagrain. Putting out exceptional dry matter yields for the maturity class, Highlight also produces the goods on ME yield and starch yield.
A stay green variety with good early vigour and excellent standing power, Highlight is an agronomically sound choice for forage and AD growers.
taken from the BSPB/NIAB descriptive list 2025. *Breeder/Field Options estimates
Data taken from the BSPB/NIAB descriptive list 2026 favourable sites. *Breeder/Field Options estimates.
Data taken from the BSPB/NIAB NL trials. *Breeder/Field Options estimates.
ProCam Maize Trial, Cheshire
EARLY VARIETIES
LATER VARIETIES
MarcoPolo
• FAO – 190*
• Early vigour – 7.0
• Cell wall digestibility – 57.1
• 19.9t DM/ha
• 31.8% starch content
• 6.3t starch/ha
• 11.54 ME (MJ/kg DM)
• 230 GJ ME/ha
MarcoPolo is a new very high yielding early variety from KWS. A stay green variety with rapid early vigour and excellent standing power, MarcoPolo is an agronomically sound choice for forage and AD growers. With outstanding dry matter yield performance and good ME content, MarcoPolo is well suited to AD and high maize inclusion forage rations.
MarcoPolo has performed consistently across the contrasting seasons of 2024 and 2025, showing it can produce the goods whether it’s a cloudy season or hot droughty season.
DKC2742
• FAO – 190*
• Early vigour – 6.6
• Standing power – 7.9
• Leaf senescence – 6.7
• Cell wall digestibility – 56.5
• 19.5t DM/ha
• 31.1% starch content
• 6.06t starch/ha
• 11.35 ME (MJ/kg DM)
• 221 GJ ME/ha
Data taken from the BSPB/NIAB Descriptive List 2026 favourable sites. *Breeder/Field Options estimates.
Bringing some very different genetics, from Bayer’s Dekalb breeding programme, DKC2742 boasts agronomic characteristics that make it a useful variety for biogas production.
DKC2742 is bred with DK’s Field Shield, giving it excellent resistance to diseases such as eyespot and fusarium and tolerance to abiotic stress, shown by its ability to produce exceptional yields in the drought of 2025. Large flat leaves allow for maximum sunlight absorption and the stay green characteristic allows a wider harvesting window.
Strong early vigour aids rapid and reliable establishment regardless of sowing date, while resistance to root lodging and brackling provides reliability under challenging conditions. A leading biogas variety.
DKC3218
• FAO – 200*
• Early vigour – 7.7
• Cell wall digestibility – 59.5
• 18.0t DM/ha
• 34.9% starch content
• 6.3t starch/ha
• 12.10 ME (MJ/kg DM)
• 218 GJ ME/ha
Data taken from breeder’s replicated trials across 4 sites over 2 years. *Breeder/Field Options estimates.
A robust and consistent variety from Bayer’s Dekalb breeding programme, which shows good early vigour for rapid establishment, along with stay green for wider harvest windows.
A strong stander, with good resistance to lodging, providing reliability in challenging conditions. Limited availability.
Aroldo
• FAO – 210-220*
• Early vigour – 4
• Standing power – 7.0
• Leaf senescence – 4.0
• 20.49t DM/ha breeder data
Aroldo is a very tall, high biomass variety bred by Saatbau Linz and marketed by DSV (UK Agent) that produces massive dry matter yields along with well filled cobs.
Despite its height Aroldo is a robust variety with excellent stem stability and exceptional rooting ability, developing a massive root ball that aids excellent lodging resistance.
Aroldo
DKC3218 on the left (early June 2025)
Data taken from the BSPB/NIAB NL Trials. *Breeder/Field Options estimates.
MarcoPolo Cob (August 2025)
LATER VARIETIES OTHER VARIETIES MAIZE UNDER FILM
Agagold
• FAO – 220-230*
• Early vigour – 7.1
• Standing power – 7.7
• Leaf senescence – 6.1
• Cell wall digestibility – 58.2
• 17.9t DM/ha
• 32.6% starch content
• 5.81t starch/ha
• 11.65 ME (MJ/kg DM)
• 208 GJ ME/ha
Data taken from the BSPB/NIAB Descriptive List 2024 very favourable sites. *Breeder/Field Options estimates.
Suited to the best maize growing areas, Agagold is a big variety with very good lodging resistance, developed for the most favourable maize growing areas of the UK.
With good early vigour and drought tolerance, Agagold has shown excellent stability across sites and seasons, producing well filled, uniform cobs. Very high dry matter yields and good energy content make it ideal for anaerobic digestion.
P7326
• FAO 180-190
• Very good early vigour
• Good lodging resistance
• Rapid stover dry down
Bred by Pioneer and one of the biggest sellers in the market, P7326 performs reliably in different conditions, showing consistency across sites and years.
• FAO 180-190
• Very good early vigour
• Good lodging resistance
• Rapid stover dry down
Another Pioneer variety, whose dent-like starch texture provides a highly rumen-degradable starch content, allowing earlier feed out and aiding the transition from old to new crop maize silage.
ProCam have two internal maize under film trial sites, one in the south west and one in the north west, which allow us to identify which varieties work best with this system. Isanto is a longstanding performer — a very vigorous variety which thrives under SAMCO film, producing
impressive, uniform crops. We are constantly assessing other varieties ahead of them coming to market to identify which other varieties could be used with this system going forward. Speak to your ProCam Agronomist for more information.
