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 ...

“In our sorghum silage trial, we have not isolated the male ... “In past years, there has not been as much interest in male-sterile yields without the grain because the general interest ...

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 ...

A reasonable yield goal for grain sorghum types is 10-15 tons per acre. Higher yields can be obtained with forage sorghums, but silage quality is lower. Sorghum heads also can be chopped and ...

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 ...

Harvest is starting to take shape at Collingullie in southern NSW, and farmer Mark Taylor said the yields ... for silage in general, and we are seeing a few farmers growing sorghum here and ...

Under the extreme heat of 2022, even sorghum yields will be impacted, and he expects yields this year to fall to three-four tonnes per hectare, compared to five-six tonnes during a normal year.