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SUMMER ANNUAL FORAGES
Organic Viking O-200 BMR
Sorghum-Sudangrass*
NEW Organic Proso Millet*
• Superior-quality forage with increased tillering and
rapid growth
• Excellent palatability and highly digestible
• Dry stalk gene improved drydown for baling
• Brown midrib (Gene 6)
• Faster drying, better than Blackhawk for dry hay or haylage
• Fast-growing annual warm season grass, most
often raised for grain
• Also used for an emergency forage crop
• Ready to harvest 60-70 days after planting
• Low water requirements and good drought tolerance
• Plant Mid-May – July (soil temperatures >60˚F)
• Drill or broadcast 20-30 lbs./acre
Organic Viking O-400 BMR Forage Sorghum*
Japanese Millet*
• Early maturing, ready to harvest in 80-85 days
• Mostly sterile grain, enhances feed quality of the plant
• Brown midrib gene lowers lignin and improves quality
and digestibility
• Maximum tonnage you can get from an annual forage
(second only to silage corn)
• Prussic acid potential must be managed for safe baling,
silage
• Seed 20-30 lbs./acre
(Untreated, Non-GMO)
• Upright, warm-season annual with rapid growth in productive, heavy soils
• With adequate moisture and fertility can be cut 2-3 times
• Forage protein can reach 14-20% if cut before heading
• No danger of prussic acid poisoning
• Not frost tolerant
• Plant into warm soil (late-May through June)
• Seed 25-35 lbs./acre, ½ to 1 in. deep
Organic Hybrid Sudangrass*
• Fast growing hybrid annual grass for forage
production
• Finer quality than Sorghum-Sudan and finer stemmed
• Can be used for dry hay, grazing, silage and greenchop
• Cut before heading for best forage quality; leave 6-8 in.
of stubble for regrowth
• Prussic acid potential must be managed for safe
grazing, bailing and silage
• Drill or broadcast 20-30 lbs./acre after danger
of frost has passed
Teff Grass*
(Untreated, Non-GMO)
• Summer annual with excellent forage quality
• High mineral content (calcium, iron)
• Resistant to most diseases and insects
• Well-adapted to most diseases and insects
• Plant into warm soil (late-May through June)
• Seed 8-12 lbs./acre, ¼ to ⅛ in. deep into firm seedbed
FOARGES
Ben Hinueber (Albert
Lea Seed) in a field of
O-200 BMR Sorghum/
Sudangrass
Call for current prices and availability
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