Other Forage

Sorghums grown as forages include sorghum-sudangrass, forage sorghum and grain sorghum hybrids. Sorghum-sudangrass hybrids are used mainly for pasture or hay.

My family has been farming for five generations and over a century in Oregon’s South Willamette Valley, aka the “Grass Seed Capital of the World.”

We know grass seed. We have been growing varieties of fescue, annual and perennial ryegrass seed for over half of that century.

Brown mid-rib forages have been around for a long time; however, their use has greatly increased over the last 10 to 15 years due to increased breeding efforts and the greater number of varieties now available.

When cattle producers and forage experts in the southeastern U.S. talk about the toughest pasture weeds to control, smutgrass is always near the top of the list.

Conservation of forage during the growing season for deferred use is a common production practice for cattle enterprises.

Pasture forage production is not always adequate to meet cow intake or nutrient requirements.