Super Sugar
Super Sugar is a high yielding conventional forage grass best used for hay, grazing, greenchop, or cover crop. Thin sweet stems make it highly palatable with stem sugar ranging from 12-16%. Planting higher populations will result in finer stems, finer stems dry quicker producing higher quality hay. The improved drought tolerant genetics allow Super Sugar to yield even under dry conditions. Recovery following a drought is excellent, but always test the forage for prussic acid prior to feeding to any animal. Yield trial results are below.
Additional Characteristics:
Seeding Rates:
Additional Characteristics:
- Excellent double crop option low inputs
- Good late season cover crop
- Anthracnose & Downy mildew resistant
- Water requirement - very low
- Early season vigor - excellent
- Harvest at the boot stage or 40-60 inches
- First cutting 40-60 days 40-60"
- Second cutting 25-30 days 25-30"
- Third cutting 25-30 days 25-30"
Seeding Rates:
- Seeds per pound: 19,000
Seeding Method |
Harvest Stage |
Dryland Lbs/Acre |
Irrigated Lbs/Acre |
Dryland Seeds/Acre |
Rainfed/Irrigated Seeds/Acre |
Drilled |
Boot Stage |
20-25 |
45-50 |
380,000- 665,000 |
855,000- 950,000 |
2012 Summer Annual Forage Trial (Tifton, Georgia)
2012 Dryland Forage & Sweet Sorghum Variety Performance Trial (Fort Collins, Colorado)
- Planted April 25, 2012
- First Cutting 10,511 lbs/acre harvest date June 28, 2012
- Second Cutting 9,578 lbs/acre harvest date September 20, 2012
- 2 year average for two cuttings 26,119 lbs/acre
2012 Dryland Forage & Sweet Sorghum Variety Performance Trial (Fort Collins, Colorado)
- Hybrid: Super Sugar
- Yield: 11.55 Tons/Acre
- Stem Sugar: 17.2%
- Height at Harvest: 46 inches
- Planting Date: 6/1/12
- Harvest Date: 9/5/12
- Fertilizer: 40 lb/ac
- Soil: Fort Collins loam