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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 Page 31