This was our first year planting sorghum grain. We had an incredibly wet summer and were about 10" ahead on moisture and then it quit right around the time the grain heads began to form, so I am not entirely sure how it will be in a normal year. Still, I was blown away by the crop that we did get by drilling at 7.5" rows using a Great Plains drill. We didn't calibrate it but we did get pretty close to our target rate of seed in lbs/acre. I will have to dig up what that was, and I will get back to you later with that rate. I will also follow up next week with what it looks like currently. It won't have snow, but you will be able to see what it looks like for this crop in northern Missouri.
September 6th: (I am attributing them not being taller to the cooler/wetter summer. Here, they average grain height is between 3-4 ft).
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Also September 6th. This is just a comparison of grain sorghum and sorghum-sudan that were planted with the same rate and depth on the same day.
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October 27th: All of the grain is gone. The deer and birds devoured this plot in the span of 2-3 weeks. We will be planting about another acre or so of sorghum this coming year.
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