WARM SEASON ANNUALS

Phillips Sweet Sil
Hybrid Forage Sorghum

• Medium maturity (90-100 days)
• Very good standability
• Good grain production
• Planting rate – 4-6 lbs/acre in rows
• Best used for silage

COOL SEASON ANNUALS

Triticale

• Very productive winter annual
• High quality pasture, hay, or silage
• Longer season – most varieties still growing well after
  wheat has headed
• Resistant to most wheat diseases

Phillips Sweet Bal
Sterile Hybrid Forage Sorghum

• Male sterile – allows sugars to stay in stalk for high energy & exceptional palatability
• For single cut hay, grazing, silage, or cover crop
• Seed at 5-7 lbs/acre in rows or 12-18 lbs drilled
• Eliminates volunteer if no pollinator nearby

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 Graz
Hybrid Sorghum Sudangrass

• Excellent for multiple cut system
• 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

Hairy Vetch

• Cool season Nitrogen-fixing legume
• Used as cover crop or mixed with cereals for forage –
  usually for grazing
• Fall planted with rapid growth in May
• Low fertility and moisture requirements
• Not as low pH sensitive as clovers/alfalfa

Wonderleaf Hybrid Pearl Millet

• Used for haying or grazing
• Begin grazing at 24” – 30” tall
• For optimum regrowth, leave 8” stubble
• Plant 1⁄2” – 1” deep at 8-15 lbs/acre

Forage Peas

• Cool season Nitrogen-fixing legume
• Works well planted with spring oats
• Excellent forage quality
• Wide area of adaptation

German "Strain R" Millet

• Use for hay, grazing, or green fodder
• Maximum height 5 feet
• Less nutritious than a number of other forages
• Seed at 15-20 lbs/acre

COOL SEASON ANNUALS

Triticale

• Very productive winter annual
• High quality pasture, hay, or silage
• Longer season – most varieties still growing well after
  wheat has headed
• Resistant to most wheat diseases

Cowpeas

• Warm season Nitrogen-fixing legume
• Mixes well with sorghums or millets
• Great for double crop
• Use for cover crop or forage
• Very succulent – hay can be slow drying

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

NATIVE WARM SEASON PER. GRASSES

• Extremely well adapted to Plains
• 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
• Low maintenance and fertility requirements compared
  to cool season forages