Nutri-King BMR 6
(Sorgo Sorghum-Sudangrass)
Nutri-King has fine juicy-sweet stems making it an excellent hybrid for grazing, hay, silage/balage, grazing or cover. It is a multi or single cut hybrid which can be planted early or late and make a first cutting in 40-50 days. Nutri-King has excellent early growth vigor, allowing you to produce the maximum tonnage in a short amount of time. It's been the highest yielding sorghum sudangrass hybrid in the 2015 & 2016 forage trials. Yield testing indicates 6-8 Tons/DryMatter/Acre at testing locations through multiple years. Third party analysis reports excellent nutritional percentages. Nutri-King consistently demonstrates high soluble sugar content and good TDN, NDFD, IVTD scores. With Nutri-King cattle will clean it up before they would consider eating a conventional hybrid.
Hybrid Characteristics:
Seeding Rates:
Hybrid Characteristics:
- Excellent recovery after cutting or grazing
- Anthracnose & downey mildew resistance
- Excellent IVTD, TDN and NDFD
- For best protein and digestibility harvest in the flag leaf / boot stage
- Water requirement - very low
- New hybrid with high stem sugar content
- Early growth vigor - excellent
- Harvest at the boot stage or 40-50 inches
- First cutting 40-50 days
- Second cutting 25-35 days
- Third cutting 25-35 days
- Begin grazing at 18-24" height
Seeding Rates:
- Seeds per pound: 16,500
Seeding Method |
Harvest Stage |
Dryland Lbs/Acre |
Irrigated Lbs/Acre |
Dryland Seeds/Acre |
Irrigated Seeds/Acre |
Drilled |
Boot |
25-40 |
40-55 |
412,500-660,000 |
660,000-907,500 |
Broadcast |
Boot |
30-45 |
45-60 |
495,000-742,500 |
742,500-990,000 |