The caveat for sorghums is their chance to contain prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) mostly when the first frost occurs. If the first frost is not a killing frost, more prussic acid will be produced on subsequent frosts until the sorghum plant is completely dead. Prussic acid toxicity occurs with all sorghum family plants, i.e., forage sorghum, hybrid sudangrass and sorghum-sudan. If you are using Continue Reading
Archives for September 2020
More Opportunities With Small Grains – Making Allelopathy Your Friend
For many of us, 2020 has at least one good thing happening for us. I has been the earliest harvesting of corn silage since 2012! This is giving us a big leg up ongetting our winter triticale planted in time to deliver a highly-tillered, and voluminous crop next spring. In our last Foraging Ahead newsletter, we weretalking about putting in a crop of a cocktail mix after the triticale or rye in the Continue Reading