It also utilizes water more efficiently than corn and has high biomass yields. “One limitation to sorghum silage fed to cattle is the digestibility is generally less than that of corn ...

For much of the sorghum-growing regions of the state, the arrival of rain and the amount that fell have dictated this year’s outlook.

Driving through the heart of dairy country in the High Plains this past summer, one thing became clear—sorghum silage acres are up. With irrigation water from the Ogallala Aquifer dwindling ...

In high-input situations, she said, corn will outperform forage sorghum. But in the Southern Great Plains, few producers have the irrigation capacity to produce upper-end corn silage yields with ...

Sorghum-sudangrass hybrids can also be used for silage but will have less grain in the silage. They will also have lower yields than forage sorghum but can be swathed and harvested earlier to ...

AMARILLO – Forage sorghum silage in the Texas High Plains ... resulting in declining silage yields,” he said. “But the spider mite infestation levels did not affect the nutritional quality ...

Sorghum silage can provide an alternative to corn silage, but not all sorghum silages are equal, according to two Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialists.

Using more heat-resistant sorghum varieties may yield the most benefits, research shows. As the globe continues to spin toward a future with higher temperatures, crop yields will likely decrease ...

While some hay fields are showing severe stress, other hay and silage varieties like Forage Sorghum are tolerating the ongoing drought fairly well. As the name suggests, Forage Sorghum is a member ...