WARM SEASON ANNUALS

Phillips Sweet Graz IV
Hybrid Sorghum Sudangrass

• Excellent for grazing
• Three-way sorghum sudangrass cross
• Planting rate – 18-20 lbs/acre
• Maximum quality at 24" - 30" tall
• Maximum yield at boot stage
• Economical forage for medium requirement animals

COOL SEASON ANNUALS

Triticale

• Very productive winter annual
• High quality pasture, hay, or silage
• Grows later in spring than wheat
• Resistant to most wheat diseases

Phillips Sweet Graz PPS
Photoperiod Sensitive Hybrid Sorghum Sudangrass

• No heads until only 12 hours 20 min. daylength
• Excellent lodging resistance
• Wider harvest window
• Very good regrowth
• Excellent choice for hay, silage, or rotational grazing
• Full maturity

Turnips/Brassica Mixes

• Extremely high forage quality
• Quick establishment/short season
• Low planting cost per acre
• Works well mixed with cereals
• Cold tolerant to 20° F or lower

Phillips Sweet Bal Male Sterile Hybrid Forage Sorghum

• Male sterile - sugars stay in leaves and stalks
• For single cut hay, silage, or cover crop
• Seed at 36 lbs/acre in rows or 4-9 drilled
• Eliminates volunteer if no pollinator nearby

Hairy Vetch

• Cool season Nitrogen-fixing legume
• Cover crop or forage mix component
• Fall planted with rapid growth in May
• Low fertility and moisture requirements
• Not as sensitive to low pH as clover or alfalfa

Wonderleaf Hybrid Pearl Millet

• Use for haying or grazing
• Begin grazing at 24" - 30" tall
• Leave 8" stubble for optimum regrowth
• Plant 1/2" - 1" deep at 8-15 lbs/acre in 70° or more soil

Forage Peas

• Cool season Nitrogen-fixing legume
• Winter pea varieties for fall planting
• Field pea varieties for spring planting
• Works well planted with cereals
• Wide area of adaptation

German "Strain R" Millet

• Use for hay, grazing, or green fodder
• Maximum height 5 feet
• Less nutritious than some other forages
• Seed at 15-20 lbs/acre in 70° or more soil

NATIVE WARM SEASON PER. GRASSES

• Extremely well adapted to Plains Region
• Use mixes to complement cool season grasses and
  to build a “forage chain”
• Highest quality and growth when cool season grasses are lowest in quality and production
• Lower fertility needs than cool season grasses

Cowpeas

• Warm season Nitrogen-fixing legume
• Mixes well with sorghums or millets
• Great for double crop forage or cover crop
• Very succulent – hay can be slow drying
• Best emergence in 70° or more soil

COOL SEASON PERENNIAL GRASSES

• Multiple species or blends to adapt to varied environments and soil types
• Produces an abundance of high quality forage
• Mixes well with legumes and forbs
• Relatively long grazing season
• Provides grazing well before native grasses

NOTE: All Phillips sorghums and sudangrass crosses are available with Concep
safener or Concep + insecticide