Sorghum/Sudan

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Performance

• Low-lignin content increases digestibility in livestock rations
• Warm-season, summer annual with fast dry down for multiple harvests as pasture, hay or silage.
• Low-input requirements and an efficient user of nitrogen and water, with few weed or pest concerns
• Seasonal dry-matter tonnage equal to corn silage as silage, pasture or hay
• Superior forage quality versus BMR hybrid sorghum x sudangrass with reduced prussic acid
• Improved disease package with very good resistance to Anthracnose and Downy Mildew

Management

• Adapted to all areas of the U.S. where hybrid sorghum x sudangrass or hybrid sudangrass is normally grown
• Plant after danger of frost and soil temperatures exceed 65°
• Fine stems, leafy and aggressive tillering after harvest. Leave a 3 to 4” stubble
• Follow all sorghum feeding precautions

Appearance at Harvest Maturity

• Harvest usually occurs 45 to 55 days after germination.
• A fast-growing hybrid with very fine stems, aggressive tillering and a mass of leaves with the characteristic brown mid-rib coloring. Usually chest-high before head extension

PERFORMANCE

• Warm-season, summer annual best adapted to rotational grazing, hay or silage where a wide harvest window is desired.
• Stays in the vegetative growth stage until day length is 12 hours and 20 minutes or less, which is usually September depending on latitude.
• Features a very good disease resistance package

MANAGEMENT

• Adapted to all areas of the U.S. where hybrid sorghum x sudangrass or hybrid sudangrass is grown.
• Plant after the danger of frost and soil temperatures exceed 65°.
• Leave a 3 to 4″ of stubble at harvest and apply 1 to 1.25 pounds of actual nitrogen for each day to the expected next harvest.
• Follow all sorghum feeding precautions.