General Updates

Summer Cover Crop/Grazing Mixtures Summer Feast– A simple but effective mix of hybrid pearl millet and brassica. High yielding forage and deep tap root! Ray’s Crazy Mix– A 7-way mixture of summer annual legumes, brassicas and grasses. Equal parts forage and cover crop, this mixture is a great way to grow soil organic matter, improve tilth and…

Exceed BMR Millet Exceed BMR Millet continues to be a standout summer annual crop. High disease resistance, increased palatability, high yields and great regrowth combine to make it a top choice in the hybrid pearl millet category. Agronomic Traits Dwarfing gene increases leaf to stem ratios, improves standability, and adapts to heavier grazing pressure Excellent disease…

Consult Page 53 of our Product Information Guide for management info on Sudangrass, Sorghum Sudan and Forage Sorghum! BMR Gene 6 is the most pronounced of the BMR Genes. For your cows, this means higher digestibility, higher energy, higher intake and higher production versus Non BMR and BMR 12. BMR Gene 6 Highlights Forage Sorghum –…

“Calibration of equipment by trial and error as you plant several acres can be costly in many ways.” Wear and tear on a seed drill can have a huge effect on the setting, and with any drill, you   never know what you are putting down until you calibrate by hand. It’s also important to check the…

When money is tight we all begin to look for ways to cut costs. After all, cutting cost is the best way to increase profitability. Or is it? When it comes to seed selection during this economic low, the temptation will be to ignore what we know about varietal differences and look for the varieties…

Cowpeas are a viney summer annual legume that can climb, tolerate some shade, and fill in the spaces in a summer annual grass, so should you consider adding them to a stand of forage sorghum?  The answer (as usual) contains many variables, with both pros and cons to weigh. Space is at stake and plants…

“Sugarcane aphids (SCA) have now been found in Lubbock and Hale counties in Texas. This is much farther north and earlier than what was observed in Texas in 2015. Although this is concerning, it does not give us any indication of how serious SCA may be this season for the South Plains and Panhandle of…

AF 7201 Forage Sorghum at Boot Stage As we get into the thick of summer annual season, we are bombarded with product options. Within the Southeast AgriSeeds/King’s AgriSeeds inventory alone there are dozens of summer annual options and combinations of options to plant. Combine this with products offered by other organizations and the number becomes…

The cut off date for planting any crop is never etched in stone, but is more of an educated guess based on a collection of information. Planting date, like age, is not just a number but a state of mind. Every planting season, calendar date is just one guideline among many, and it’s important to…

BarOptima Plus E34 Tall Fescue, a soft-leaf fescue containing a beneficial endophyte Toxic-endophyte tall fescue (predominantly Kentucky-31) makes up over 90 percent of tall fescue acres in the US and costs the cattle industry over $1 billion every year in lost productivity. The losses caused by the toxic endophyte may not be immediately apparent without…