Flexigraze Forage Sorghum

Product Description

• Seed Agronomy Table

  Seeding Rate - Dryland (kg/ha)

  8-15

  Seeding Rate - High Rainfall/Irrigation (kg/ha)

  20-30

  Maturity

  Ultra-late

  Leaf Type

  Fine

• Seed Treatment

  Enhanced or Standard

• Enterprises For This Seed

  Beef and Sheep

  Dairy

  Silage and Hay

  Viticulture and Horticulture

• Strengths

  Ultra-late flowering, high quality

• Temperature

  Sow when the soil temperature is 16°C and rising for optimal establishment

• Management
  Grazing/Cutting

  Tolerant of heavy grazing. Commence grazing when plants have reached 1 to 1.5 metres in height. Slashing after grazing will promote even regrowth. Should not be grazed or cut below 15 centimetres if good regrowth is expected. Can expect 4 or more grazings under ideal conditions.

• Animal Production
  Feeding Value

  Nutritive value depends greatly on soil fertility or the amount of fertiliser applied, and on grazing management where best results are achieved with a grazing height of 1 to 1.2 m. At this height, crude protein levels could be as high as 18 per cent with energy levels of 8.8 to 9.5 megajoules per kilogram dry matter.

  Palatability

  Highly palatable and digestible at all growth stages.

  Production Potential

  Generally, live weight gains vary between 0.5 to 1 kilogram per head per day depending on plant height and leafiness.

  Livestock Disorders/Toxicity

  Very low level prussic acid risk. Careful management is required when crop is stressed, especially in young stressed regrowth during a dry spell. Having supplement blocks containing sulphur available will reduce the risk of prussic acid poisoning. Nitrate poisoning can occur when grown on fertile soils containing high levels of nitrogen and when plants are stressed by dry conditions or frost.

• Establishment Guarantee

  At S&W Seed Company Australia we're so confident about our seed genetics and seed quality, we will replace seed at half the original purchase price if it fails to establish satisfactorily in the first thirty days* Read more