Sordan 79 Sorghum-Sudangrass Hybrid Click to Get The Tech Specs

  • Dependable summer forage for hay, haylage, greenchop or grazing.

  • Produces quality forage even under drought stress.

  • Fast regrowth after cutting offers maximum yields.

  • Tolerant to atrazine carryover.

  • Helps reduce root-knot nematodes.

Trudan 8 Hybrid Sudangrass Click to Get The Tech Specs

  • True hybrid sudangrass offers versatility, top quality forage and high yield.

  • Very leafy with fine stems for palatable, nutritious feed with low prussic 
    acid potential.

  • Rapid regrowth for multiple cuttings or intensive grazing.

  • Excellent for grazing, haylage, hay or greenchop.

  • Helps reduce root-knot nematodes.

Millex 32 Hybrid Pearl Millet Click to Get The Tech Specs

  • Leafy hybrid produces excellent quality forage with no prussic acid 
    potential.

  • Stands up to heat, drough and high pH soils.

  • Uniform stands are ideal for summer grazing, as well as greenchop, 
    baling or silage.

  • Timely, multiple cuttings can give you optimum forage value.
NK300 Hybrid Forage Sorghum Click to Get The Tech Specs

  • A favorite among growers for top quality forage.

  • Large heads provide high grain-to-forage ratio for quality and digestibility.

  • Exceptional standability and very good drought tolerance help you get 
    maximum yields.

  • Early maturity permits the hybrid to ratoon or grow back for a second 
    crop where the season permits.

Sucrosorgo 405 Click to Get The Tech Specs

  • Hybrid Forage Sorghum

  • Established reputation for high-tonnage forage and high-quality silage.

  • Sweet stalks and leaves, plus high sugar content, make palatable, 
    high energy forage.

  • Very good stress tolerance and standability for its height helps 
    maintain yields.

  • Ideal for either animal feed or biomass alcohol production.

  • Best use is in combination with silage corn.

251 - Very Early Grain Variety Click to Get The Tech Specs

  • Average days to 50% bloom - 50-54 days

  • Excellent standability

  • Use for late planting or double-crop

KS 585 - Medium Maturity Grain Variety Click to Get The Tech Specs

  • Average days to 50% bloom - 65-69 days

  • Good standability & uniformity

  • Plant by July for forage

K73-J6 - Medium-Full Maturity Click to Get The Tech Specs

  • Average days to 50% bloom - 71-75 days

  • Excellent stay-green

  • Full season sorghum variety - plant by June 20th




Forage Feed Analysis - 3 Year Average (2004-2006)
New Deal, Texas
All Results Based on Dry Matter Bases (0.00%) Moisture
Hybrid Plant Growth Stage % Sample Moisture % Crude Protien % Digestible Protien % Crude Fat % Acid Detergent Fiber % Ash % Total Digestible Nutrients % Nitrogen NE (lactation) Mcal/lb NE (gain) Mcal/lb NE (maintenece) Mcal/lb % Sugar
Millex 32 Boot 83.54 11.83 7.77 1.29 38.49 13.07 64.27 2.02 0.66 0.36 0.64 5.07
Millex 32 Bloom 74.37 9.75 6.11 1.45 36.16 10.53 64.99 1.56 0.67 0.37 0.64 6.20
Millex 32 Mature 63.85 8.12 4.68 2.57 30.97 8.90 66.58 1.30 0.68 0.40 0.66 9.20
Trudan 8 Boot 82.44 12.52 8.24 1.38 37.75 11.10 64.50 2.0 0.66 0.37 0.64 4.37
Trudan 8 Bloom 70.60 8.73 4.98 2.03 32.14 10.00 65.97 1.40 0.68 0.39 0.66 8.93
Trudan 8 Mature 62.96 9.31 5.70 2.0 32.73 7.50 66.04 1.49 0.68 0.39 0.65 11.65
Trudan HeadlessBMR 3' Tall 75.47 14.72 9.71 1.57 35.85 12.60 65.08 2.35 0.67 0.38 0.64 4.25
Trudan HeadlessBMR 4.5' Tall 83.21 7.97 4.66 1.62 32.53 12.95 66.11 1.27 0.68 0.39 0.65 5.20
Trudan HeadlessBMR 6' Tall 74.50 10.50 6.68 1.60 35.96 9.30 65.05 1.68 0.67 0.38 0.64 8.35
Trudan Headless 4' Tall 84.60 12.87 8.50 1.38 37.44 12.97 64.59 2.01 0.67 0.37 0.64 3.97
Trudan Headless 7' Tall 81.50 8.27 4.78 1.38 34.25 11.27 65.58 1.32 0.67 0.39 0.65 6.07
Trudan Headless 8' Tall 72.47 7.36 4.18 1.07 36.17 7.43 64.98 1.18 0.68 0.39 0.65 10.93
Sordan 79 5' Tall 78.70 13.69 9.03 1.58 37.38 10.87 64.61 1.99 0.67 0.37 0.64 4.90
Sordan 79 7.5' - Boot 69.29 7.46 4.22 2.02 32.01 9.17 66.27 1.19 0.68 0.40 0.66 6.87
Sordan 79 8' - Grain 70.85 6.56 3.61 1.70 31.77 8.45 66.34 1.05 0.68 0.39 0.65 9.35
Sordan Headless 4' Tall 81.37 13.29 8.77 1.55 36.94 13.40 64.75 2.13 0.67 0.37 0.64 3.87
Sordan Headless 7' Tall 80.50 9.19 5.60 1.33 34.64 11.90 65.46 1.47 0.68 0.38 0.65 7.13
Sordan Headless 9' Tall 75.90 9.06 5.46 1.40 37.65 8.65 64.52 1.45 0.66 0.37 0.63 7.50
NK300 3' Tall 82.55 14.59 9.63 1.70 38.05 11.60 64.40 2.33 0.66 0.36 0.63 4.10
NK300

Boot

 72.14 7.88 4.49 1.65 32.61 9.90 66.08 1.26 0.68 0.40 0.66 7.90
NK300 Dough 70.23 6.81 3.72 1.52 35.60 8.80 65.16 1.09 0.67 0.39 0.65 9.36
NK300 BMR -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
NK300 BMR -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
NK300 BMR Dough 75.50 7.81 4.40 1.70 33.86 7.80 65.70 1.25 0.68 0.39 0.65 9.10
HIKANE II 4' Tall 82.85 12.87 8.49 1.62 38.53 8.55 64.25 2.06 0.66 0.36 0.63 5.00
HIKANE II 6' Tall 71.40 8.86 5.34 1.73 28.17 8.10 67.45 1.26 0.69 0.41 0.67 10.20
HIKANE II 7' - Grain 64.77 7.17 4.09 1.43 31.10 6.97 66.89 1.15 0.69 0.40 0.66 13.30
Sucrosorgo 405 5' Tall 86.10 12.78 8.43 1.62 38.48 11.15 64.27 2.04 0.66 0.36 0.63 3.10
Sucrosorgo 405 8' Tall 77.47 9.94 6.25 1.50 34.50 10.0 65.50 1.59 0.67 0.39 .65 6.97
Sucrosorgo 405 10' - Grain 76.67 6.83 3.73 0.97 35.91 8.17 65.07 1.09 0.67 0.38 .64 10.93
Sucrosorgo 506 5' Tall 84.20 10.72

6.95

 1.52 38.48 10.80 64.26 1.71 0.66 0.36 0.63 3.30
Sucrosorgo 506 8' Tall 76.37 8.23 4.75 1.58 34.03 9.57 65.64 1.32 0.68 0.39 0.65 8.67
Sucrosorgo 506 11' - Grain 71.93 6.38 3.36 0.95 38.73 8.27 64.19 1.02 0.67 0.37 0.64 11.00
1990 4' Tall 85.40 12.12 7.91 1.50 38.19 10.85 64.36 1.94 0.66 0.36 0.64 3.40
1990 7' Tall 79.87 8.21 4.74 1.37 34.71 9.77 65.43 1.31 0.67 0.38 0.65 7.03
1990 10 ' Tall 73.83 8.77 5.23 1.37 38.32 8.87 64.32 1.40 0.66 0.36 0.63 8.80


FORAGE SORGHUM CHARACTERISTICS
Hybrid Relative Maturity (RM)(3) Silage Harvest Maturity Photo Sensitive - (headless) PLant Height (feet) Approx. Seeds/Lb (1,000)(4) Early Growth Rate(2) Yield (tonnage)(2) Stalk Sweetness (2)(3) % Grain in Forage (3) Leafiness (2) Standability (2) Drought Tolerance (2) Greenbug Resistance (Biotype) Anthracnose Resistance (3) MDMV Tolerance (3) Downy Mildew Pathotypes Prusic Acid Porential Hybrid
Hybrid Forage
NK300 Med. Early 100-110 NO 6-7 13 2 3 5 15-20 3 2 3 NONE Tolerant Tolerant NONE High NK300
HIKANE II Medium 110-120 NO 9-10 19 2 3 3 10-15 3 4 3 NONE Susceptible Susceptible NONE High HIKANE II
Sucrosorgo 405 FULL 120-125 NO 10-12+ 14.5 2 2 2 5-15 3 4 3 C Tolerant Tolerant 1 High Sucrosorgo 405
Sorghum X Sudangrass Hybrid
Sordan 79 N/A N/A NO 6-7 14 2 3 U N/A 3 4 3 C Tolerant U 1 Medium Sordan 79
Sordan Headless N/A N/A YES 8-10 16.5 2 2 U N/A 2 4 3 C Tolerant U 1 Medium Sordan Headless
Hybrid Sudangrass
Trudan 8 N/A N/A NO 4-6 22.5 2 3 U N/A 2 3 3 C UI U 1 Low Trudan 8
Trudan Headless N/A N/A YES 7-9 25 2 2 U N/A 1 3 3 C U U 1 Low Trudan Headless
Trudan Headless BMR N/A N/A YES 5-7 25 2 2 U N/A 1 3 3 C U U 1 Low Trudan Headless BMR
Hybrid Pearl Millet
Millex N/A N/A NO 5-7 47 5 4 U N/A 1 3 1 C, E & I U U 1 None Millex 32

(1) Dough Stage from Emergence
(2) Numerical Rating: 1 to 9 (1 = Excellent, 5 = Average, 9 = Poor)
(3) U = Undetermined, N/A = Not Applicable
(4) Seeds per pound may vary due to environmental influences during production season

Deviation from normal planting date, cultural practices and growing conditions may affect performace and cause variation in these characteristics.

Ratings and descriptions are based on research and field observations collected by Sorghum Partners, Inc. from multiple locations over multiple years.
They represent comaprisons with Company products only.
Sorghum Parteners, Inc., P.O. Box 189, New Deal, Texas 79350
Phone 800-645-7478, Fax 806-746-5305, www.Sorgum-Partners.com