It can be ready for harvest about 45 days after planting. The smaller stems give it better drying characteristics than other sorghums for hay making. Hybrids are available that are slightly larger and higher yielding. Yield is generally less than for forage sorghums but similar to slightly higher than sudangrass. It can be used for hay, haylage, green-chop, and pasture.
Larger stems make drying for hay more difficult than for sudangrasses.
Establishment Sorghum can be established either by conventional or reduced tillage methods. Soil pH should be between 6 and 7.5 with 6.5 being considered optimum. Sudangrass has low levels of this compound and rarely kills animals. Sorghum has the highest levels and sorghum-sudangrasses are intermediate. There is also considerable varietal difference in prussic acid content for all types of sorghums.