Summary
Hayking has a low-lignin content that increases digestibility in livestock rations. It is a warm-season, summer annual with seasonal dry matter tonnage equal to corn silage as silage, pasture or hay. With low-input requirements and an efficient user of nitrogen and water, with few weed or pest concerns, it is a superior forage quality versus BMR hybrid sorghum x sudangrass with reduced prussic acid.
Plant Characteristics
Taxonomy
Zone
- Regional Growing Zone
- 1 - Northwest Coastal, 2 - California Coastal, 3 - Southern Mountain, 4 - Mountain, 5 - Midwest, 6 - Northeast Lakes, 7 - Great Lakes South, 8 - Appalacia, 9 - Southeast, 11 - South Texas, 12 - Southwest
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zones
- 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Temperature Zone
- Warm, Cool, Transitional
Plant Characteristics
- Leaf Color
- Green
- Growing Cycle
- Annual
- Sun Requirement
- Full Sun
- Traits
- BMR
Plant Information
- Planting Season
- Summer
- Plant Depth
- 1"
- Minimum Soil Temp for Germination
- 65° F
- Establishment
- Easy
Seed Information
- Seeds Per Pound
- 32,000
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Subkingdom
- Tracheobionta
- Super Division
- Spermatophyta
- Division
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- LILIOPSIDA
- Subclass
- COMMELINIDAE
- Order
- CYPERALES
- Family
- POACEAE
- Genus
- SORGHUM
- Species
- SORGHUM BICOLOR DRUMMONDII
