Very heat tolerant. Planting, fertility, and harvest Plant at 20-25 pounds for grazing, silage, green chop and hay. Japanese market requires 100-150 pounds per acre for hay. Plant 10-15 pounds per acre for dry land production. Can be planted broadcast, drilled and direct drilled.
Spoon feed nitrogen throughout growing season for maximum production.
Poisoning - more livestock have been poisoned on nitrates than from prussic acid in California. Nitrate poisoning is usually the result of over fertilizing with nitrogen or by moisture stress with high nitrogen leaves. Prussic acid comes on after a hard freeze in late fall, early winter. For all these cautions we have very few problems and they are usually years apart.