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:
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: 15,000-18,000
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