Brown Midrib Grazing Corn for Late Summer Planting

0:00 This is a brown midrib grazing corn, an open pollinated corn that's bred specifically for grazing and not for grain. Being a brown midrib, it has lower lignin in the stock, so the stock

0:13 Quality is not going to be as good but you're not taking it out to grain so that's not as important. This is extremely palatable for the cattle and if we were to turn cattle out.

0:23 In this whole plot they would eat this first and they'll just eat it right down to the roots because it is so incredibly palatable now at the stage that it's at. Here it's a little beyond where normally.

0:33 You would want to graze it at optimum. Grazing is going to be right when it's starting to shoot tassels and it will get there pretty quickly. This is an 84 day product where there's also 92 day.

0:44 Brown midrib grazing horns that we have. So it gets to that stage very quickly as you can see it doesn't make real big ears. So again it's not a grain corn, it is primarily a grazing corn and ideal.

0:57 Grazing would be a little bit sooner than what this is, but if you wanted to stockpile graze this with in addition to some sorghums and stuff, it can be a real good addition to a mix like that.

1:07 Where this product really shines is in late summer planning. Most of our cool season products that we'll plant in the fall for fall or winter grazing are very washy, very very low dry matter.

1:39 Diet slows the rate of passage. Animals perform much better and they're more satisfied. Used to advocate putting sorghum in those mixes because sorghum is cheap and you can get a little bit of.

1:53 Growth before frost well for that purpose corn just blows sorghum away. Corn pops out of the ground faster. It grows longer into the fall because this will grow at fifty or fifty-five.

2:09 degrees whereas sorghum needs 65 degree temperatures so you get a lot more biomass out of this then you will sorghum if you plant it in August a big advantage in addition is that this has

2:23 No press ik acid to worry about in, especially a time of frost like. Sorghum's Woodruff, all very, very versatile, very economical product. I love this stuff.

2:34 Dale, how long before a first frost would you like to see this in to get enough benefit to make it worthwhile? It's very economical, so even a little bit of benefit pays for the seed cost on this. I'd like to see a minimum of 30 days, 45 days, six weeks, six weeks and plant it and go. Yeah, so you can go clear on in any time in August, probably.