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PhotoKing BMR Sorghum x Sudangrass
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.
Description
FIELD APPEARANCE
- Wide, showy leaves with the characteristic brown mid-rib coloring.
SEEDING RATES
- Dryland, 12 to 35 pounds per acre, 6 inches to 18 inches, plants/square foot: 4 to 10
- Irrigated, 30 to 40 pounds per acre, 6 inches to 18 inches, plants/square foot: 12 to 30
- Broadcast (dryland), 10 to 30 pounds per acre
- Broadcast (irrigated), 20 to 40 pounds per acre
