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Graze-N-Sile Summer Forage

Flexible forage sorghum

 

The best choice for forage sorghum pit silage production

Pioneer® brand Graze-N-Sile is a tall, grain-bearing forage sorghum hybrid. These unique attributes mean Graze-N-Sile produces high quantities of silage with high energy content.

Graze-N-Sile is the ideal substitute for corn silage in dryland areas or in limited irrigation situations.

This is a sorghum x sorghum hybrid.

 

RECOMMENDED PLANTING RATE

Marginal dryland: 50,000 - 70,000 seeds/ha

Favourable dryland: 75,000 - 100,000 seeds/ha

Irrigation: 100,000 - 150,000 seeds/ha

 

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Graze-N-Sile

Graze-N-Sile

KEY FEATURES

  • A water efficient option providing the most comparable feed option to corn silage
  • High white grain component delivers proven top quality (ME) silage for meat or milk production
  • Good leaf disease resistance for better silage quality and yield
  • Regrows after cutting meaning it is able to be cut a second time or grazed
  • White grain type.

TRAIT RATINGS

Early Seedling Vigour

5

Beef Grazing

5

Dairy Grazing

4

Sheep Grazing

4

Hay Making

5

Fast Feed

4

Late Summer Carry Over Feed

5

Pit Silage

9

Round Bale Silage

6

RATING: 1 = poor 9 = excellent

TECH NOTE

Graze-N-Sile

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Graze-N-Sile trial results

Three replicated trials over two years in the Lockyer Valley & Southern Downs.

Click the charts below to download a PDF version.

 

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