Driving through the heart of dairy country in the High Plains this past summer, one thing became clear—sorghum silage acres are up. With irrigation water from the Ogallala Aquifer dwindling, dairies ...

Not all sorghums produce the same results when fed as silage to beef and dairy cows. By: Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Sorghum silage can provide an alternative to corn silage, ...

Silage production plays a critical role in the feedyard and dairy feed supply. Over the last few years there has been a steady increase in the acres planted to silage sorghum on the High Plains. The ...

AMARILLO – Unique data for forage sorghums, including varying feed values and management needs of different hybrids, is coming out of a Texas A&M AgriLife trial being conducted near Bushland. “On the ...

As part of the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries C4Milk dairy project, grain sorghum has been investigated as an alternative silage option to corn and forage sorghum silage crops.

Grain sorghum, or milo, is grown on a limited basis in Pennsylvania for use in birdseed or poultry rations, and as a grain or silage crop for swine or cattle feed. Sorghum’s main advantages are that ...

In recent years, growing grain sorghum for silage has become a popular on-farm strategy across northern Australia, with an estimated 8-10 per cent of farms in Queensland now growing and feeding it to ...

With dairy cattle numbers increasing in Texas, especially over the Ogallala Aquifer where water resources are limited, producers and researchers are seeking drought-tolerant, quality forages to meet ...