Hi-Gest® Sudangrass Management
Hi-Gest Sudangrass is a fast growing, summer annual with multiple harvest flexibility. It features aggressive tillering, fine stems, leafiness, rapid recovery after cutting or grazing, and is adapted to areas where Sorghum X Sudangrass Hybrids or open pollinated Sudangrass are grown. Well suited for direct pasture, dried hay, green chop or silage.
The following Crop Overview and Production Guide represents sixty years of agronomic knowledge and experience about this versatile and profitable crop. We hope you find it instrumental in maximizing your farms summer annual forage program.
- Primary High Value Crop
- Double Cropping
- Emergency Forage
- Special Uses
- Temperature Requirements
- Seed Bed, Rows & Planters
- Fertility Requirements
- Weed Control
- Seed Selection
- Disease and Insects
- Nitrate Poisoning
- Prussic Acid Poisoning Click Here for a Printable PDF
- Yield
- Forage Quality