Diverse types of sorghum provide many opportunities for use as a valuable forage resource. Sudangrass and sorghum x sudangrass provide valuable grazing opportunities in the summer months; they can also be ensiled as traditional chopped silage and baleage. Forage sorghum is a good alternative to corn silage, particularly on droughty soils and where the tar spot fungus has been problematic on corn. A news release regarding the forage sorghum field day to be held on September 10 was prepared by Ashvini Malshe with Purdue Agricultural Communications follows. Please share the opportunity with others about the field day. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University Extension will host a Forage Sorghum Field Day on September 10 at the Feldun-Purdue Ag Center (FPAC) in Bedford, Indiana. “Compared to corn, forage sorghum has attributes of being more drought tolerant, has less nitrogen requirements and no host relationship with the tar spot pathogen,” said Keith[Read More…]
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Brad Shelton, Feldun-Purdue Agricultural Center Superintendent, informed me of high nitrate values in sorghum-sudangrass that were reported on a forage analysis.
Corn is an excellent silage crop. However, if corn harvested as silage has lost yield potential and forage quality the last several years because of tar spot, maybe an alternative to consider is forage sorghum.
Nights are beginning to get cooler, the first frost is approaching, and you may be questioning whether your livestock should be removed from your forage sorghum pastures.
Livestock producers wanted to know more about the risk of prussic acid poisoning when members of the sorghum family (sudangrass, sorghum-sudangrass, and forage sorghum, and Johnsongrass present in pastures) are being utilized after a freeze event.