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Nutri King BMR produces a high leaf to stem ratio with sweet juicy stems. It is one of the best for hay, grazing, baleage, or silage. Cattle prefer this hybrid over non bmr hybrids. Nutri King BMR 6 has reduced lignin which improves the fiber digestibility and palatability. With the increase in efficiency and utilization Nutri King BMR will give you better gain per acre. We have seen yields of 5-8 DM tons/acre. It has an extensive deep root system allowing it to do well under dry conditions.
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
Rate (lbs.) |
Dryland |
Irrigated |
Drilled |
20-35 |
45-60 |
Broadcast |
25-40 |
50-65 |