sorghum hay

[skyhightree1]

Does anyone in here use sorghum hay ? I don't know much about it a local Hunt Club ask if I wanted to cut and bale some sorghum before they bushhogged it. They planted the wrong kind they planted tall stuff not dwarf like they meant too. Is this good hay ?

 

[hillrancher]

As a kid at home feed many tons of sorghum. It makes real haylage. It is worth bailing.

 

[skyhightree1]

good im headed over there now to start cutting hope cattle like it.

 

[bigbull338]

i dont think youll have a prob getting your cattle to eat it.

 

[hayray]

Just baled some yesterday. Cattle really like it.

 

[skyhightree1]

Good... How dry is this stuff supposed to be before I roll it ?

 

[hayray]

Same as any other hay, 16% or less for a round bale.

 

[skyhightree1]

Thanks hayray

 

[circlew]

How did your hay turn out?

 

[Baydog]

I'd like to know how it turned out also, but I want to know if you have to cut this with a mower conditioner or a regular disc cutter. Could you bale it behind a bushogging?

 

[hayray]

I used a discbine on mine and crimped it pretty hard. It took 4 days to dry. It also was a hay and graze variety bred to dry down for hay production. If I can get it dry up here I would think it would dry real easy down there even if cut with a rotary mower.

 

[skyhightree1]

circle the hay turned well got rained on though but was windy dried enough for me to bale it today ... I did take a bale out and put in pasture and cows seemed to like it they ate half the bale while i was in the pasture.

 

[snickers]

we did sorgham/sudan grass this year for our hay and thank the lord it worked for us and the cow's really do like it.

 

[skyhightree1]

mine loved it too.. but not sure i would plant a crop of it.

 

[bigbull338]

why not because you dont like the idea of having to crimp the sorghum.

 

[skyhightree1]

why not because you dont like the idea of having to crimp the sorghum.

No I just have all my pastures and hay fields established and put alot of money into them so I dont want to disc it up and start all over... If I find a small tract to buy or lease I may do so. Do you know what I mean ?

 

[bigbull338]

yes i know what you mean.

 

[skyhightree1]

Bigbull.. do you raise sorghum hay ?

 

[bigbull338]

no but we used to cut sorghum an millet hay for people that didnt have a mow/co.an i know what kind of hay it makes put up right.that stuff can grow 7 to 10ft tall.

 

[skyhightree1]

Sure does... I like how it smells.. this is my first experience with it and the bale i put out they ate it in a day they loved it. I may get a chance to cut it again next year.