Sweething Hybrid Sorghum-Sudangrass
A fast growing, highly palatable hybrid. It is widely adaptable and dependable to
produce good quality forage in varying conditions. Well suited for greenchop or haylage,
excellent cover crop. Sweething produces a sweet, leafy, fine stemmed plant for high
value feed.
BMR Sweething - Brown Midrib
The Brown Midrib gene reduces the Lignin content in this hybrid, for increased fiber digestion in livestock. With the nearly 20% increased feed value, increased palatability, increased tonnage and leafiness this is the choice of cattlemen.
Hybrid Sorghum - Sudangrass
Brown MidRib Hybrid Sorghum-Sudangrass for Grazing, Hay, and Silage.
This multipurpose hybrid offers tremendous flexibility to producers.
When used as a direct pasture forage, BMR Sweething is exceptionally palatable and livestock tend to utilize more of the entire plant. Quality and production of regrowth are adequate for both rotational grazing and hay production. This hybrid also produces an excellent yielding silage crop with a high grain-to-stover ratio.
BMR Sweetthing adds an exciting new concept and form to sorghum-sudangrass forage hybrid. Because of the BMR trait, improved quality of the forage is attained with direct results of significant increases in animal gain. This hybrid has demonstrated the ability to increase both meat and milk production dramatically, resulting in a greater profit per acre of pasture.
BMR Brown Mid-Rib Sweething Hybrid Sorghum Sudangrass has exceptional palatability and significant reductions of Lignin content in the plant do to the BMR gene. Lignin is the component of the plant cell walls that is the primary limiting factor in the digestion of forage fiber. With the reduction of Lignin the digestibility of the plant increases dramatically. With the increased digestibility comes increased efficiency and therefore increased profitability. Add to this higher palatability and BMR Sweething Hybrid Sorghum Sudangrass is the product of choice in sorghum sudangrass.
This hybrid BMR sorghum-sudangrass has slightly larger and wider leaves than most conventional sorghum-sudangrass varieties. It also has significant brown-midrib expression, medium stem size, and white tannin-free seeds.
GEM-X Hybrid Pearl Millet
GEM-X is a high yielding pearl millet hybrid recommended for greenchop, grazing, or hay. GEM-X has a massive root system that enables it to stand up to heat and drought, particularly on light soils. It shows good tolerance to leaf and stem diseases, produces well on low pH soils with low fertility. GEM-X has no prussic acid and is recommended for both horses and cattle.
Agassiz Brand Pea-Oat Mix
This high quality, high yeilding blend contains 60% peas and 40% oats blended specifically for forage production in the upper Midwest. This excellent forage producer delivers high protein, palatable forage for livestock producers. For best results plant early and harvest when the oats reach boot stage, approxiamtely 65-80 days after planting.
Sweetie Hybrid Forage Sorghum
Unique among forages, Sweetie Hybrid Sterile Forage offers a "cane type" forage with sweet stalks and nutritious leaves that livestock relish. This prolific growing sorgo with lush green broad leaves, sugar-sweet stalks, medium maturing forage has become a favorite sweet forage. It ranks high as silage, and is preferred for "standing hay." It makes excellent hay if cut early before stalks get too heavy. Sweetie provides prolonged pasturing often in to late fall. Regrowth for multiple harvest is good. When cut in early stages, it will regrow if moisture and fertility are adequate and weather permits.
Piper Sudangrass
Popular for annual hay and late summer pasture. This annual forage is low in prussic acid content and has good drought and disease tolerance. Piper is a Wisconsin release that has good regrowth after pasturing and is the leading sudangrass hybrid.
Siberian Foxtail Millet
Siberian Foxtail Millet is the most commonly grown hay millet in the upper Midwest. Siberian is an early maturing hay millet, ready for harvesting 55-65 days after planting. Siberian is extremely hardy and drought tolerant, making excellent quality hay.
German Foxtail Millet
German Foxtail Millet is a longer season type than Siberian, being ready to harvest 65-70 days after planting. German Millet is taller with a coarser stem than Siberian. German Millet can produce more forage than Siberian and because of its increased stem size takes better management than other foxtail millets.
Japanese Foxtail Millet
Japanese Foxtail Millet is distinctly different from other foxtail millets. Japenese is much taller and produces very coarse hay that contains fair feed value. This high tonnage annual forage works well in some rotations.
BMR Sweetie Hybrid Forage Sorghum
A Full Season Brown Midrib Forage Sorghum for Pasture, Silage or Hay
This is the cattleman’s newest premier hybrid. Its exceptional sweetness and the fact that it is brown midrib makes BMR Sweetie a cut above the rest.
BMR Sweetie has larger stems than sorghum sudangrass hybrids, resulting in excellent resistance to lodging. It also retains its large dark green leaves throughout the growing season.
BMR Sweetie is partially sterile, thereby not producing significant amounts of grain. This causes a substantial build-up of non-structural carbohydrates (sugars) in the stem and leaves. Consequently, the entire plant is more palatable to cattle than many conventional hybrids.
Whether used as summer pasture, hay or left for a winter graze-out program, this BMR hybrid will provide significant increases in animal gain over conventional forage sorghums.
Agassiz Brand Pea-Barley Mix
This blend of 60% peas and 40% forage barley is designed for the producer needing high protein feed. To maximize both protein and tonnage, plant in early spring and cut when the barley reaches the boot stage.
Forage Turnip
Turnip is a fast growing crop that reaches near maximum production 80 to 90 days after seeding. Turnip germinates quickly, and can be planted to provide summer, fall and winter grazing. Turnip can be green chopped but most often is grazed with roots, stems and leaves all being grazed. Turnip has been planted into irrigated corn in late July for grazing after combining. Turnip does best on well- drained soils with pH levels between 5.3 and 6.8. Plant shallow ¼ to ½ inch deep at a seeding rate of two pounds per acre.
Italian Ryegrass (forage type)
Due to its rapid establishment, quick re-growth, and prolonged growth into fall Italian ryegrass is excellent forage. It does not go to seed the establishment year, thus producing better quality forage than many other annual forages. It works well as a cover crop for establishing alfalfa when used at a lower seeding rate.
Picker Silage Corn
Picker 80-85 and Picker 90-95 are dual-purpose production blends of 3-way and single-cross hybrids. They are specifically designed for use in either silage or grain production. The extended pollination period that results from the varieties used helps produce better yields of either grain or silage in hot and dry conditions. They have excellent grain to forage ratios, and with the tall leafy plants they make ideal choices for silage.
