Late maturing hybrid Sudan

[worldsgreatestlover]

Doing custom baling seems im often having to neglect my own to take care of others. This year we planted some late maturing varieties to give a bigger window. I could have let it get a little bigger but I got the opportunity and knocked it down yesterday. I also could have planted it considerably thinner.

 

[SBMF 2015]

Doing custom baling seems im often having to neglect my own to take care of others. This year we planted some late maturing varieties to give a bigger window. I could have let it get a little bigger but I got the opportunity and knocked it down yesterday. I also could have planted it considerably thinner. View attachment 69287View attachment 69288View attachment 69289

If you let it go long enough it will get taller than the cab on the tractor. It gets pretty rank though.

 

[farmerjan]

We plant the sorghum-sudan THICK... the stems are not tough even when it gets tall... Some years we have had it over the cab tractor when it has been too wet to get it made...
Yours looks real good...

 

[Lucky]

Be interesting to know the breakdown on that grass. How many bales per acre and the cost per bale without the baling cost? I'd like to have our own hay meadow but it would have to be something like this. We need to be able to make 300 roles a year.

 

[Dave]

Neighbor had trit. Baled it and last week drilled in Sudan-Sorghum. Going to bale it. Plan A is to get a little regrowth before the frost hits it. Then disk in that frosted Sudan. Theory is doing that will wipe out all the gophers. Someone told him he won't have a gopher for 3 years if he does this.

 

[kenny thomas]

It appears they dont like it for food so they move to somewhere else they like better.

 

[farmerjan]

We seldom have groundhogs in our sorghum-sudan grass fields so I guess they must not like to eat it... like @kenny thomas said.

 

[Dave]

We will see how this works. I doubt they will move somewhere else. The neighboring area they have 2 choices. Dry land sage brush or grass hay fields which are flood irrigated. Just don't get gophers in flood irrigated fields. Several inches of water running over the top goes down their holes and will drowned the little critters.
This is the alfalfa field that got weak. So corn was drilled in for the second cutting. Made a good crop of alfalfa, weed, and corn hay which the cows cleaned up real good. Planted to fall triticale which made a lot of trit hay about 3 weeks ago. We will see how the sudan sorghum does for a feed crop. Who knows what will follow it next year.

 

[Philip-TX]

Speaking of headed out Sudan. I have seen plenty of it. But my neighbors leasor has this going on in a cpl fields. My son googled it and came up with sorghum (like syrup, etc).
Lease guy is a “cash crop” farmer, never has made hay in the last 6 years.
What is it?
How will they harvest it (8’-10’ tall)? Chop? Surely not combine? Bale?
Hogs are enjoying the heck out of it.

 

[Philip-TX]

Pics maybe

 

[Philip-TX]

 

[simme]

What is it?
How will they harvest it (8’-10’ tall)? Chop? Surely not combine? Bale?
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Looks to be a forage sorghum that will be chopped for silage. More drought/heat tolerant than corn. Can be made with less water than corn. Can yield good, but not the quality of corn silage. Different starch content and lower feed value. Brown midrib is one that I have seen here.