Coes Sorghum: Budget-Friendly Forage for Drought & Uncertain Conditions

0:00 This is cos forage sorghum. We've had people actually nickname this the strickler sorghum because it's short.

0:09 And cheap, really cheap. It is an inexpensive sorghum because it's open pollinated so.

0:16 You don't have to do a male female cross. We can do our own seed production of this. And really for the cost you get a lot of.

0:23 Value out of this now this is not a new product. It's kind of new back on the market. This has developed what, 50, 60, 70 years ago by the ARS out in Akron.

0:33 Colorado because it was developed in that high altitude area we tend to think that it does better with some cooler evenings.

0:40 And at higher elevations you can see it's putting seed heads on. It's actually classified as a dual purpose sorghum for either grain or forage. Again, not...

0:50 Going to have the high end yield potential of some of the hybrids but dale when and where would you use this coast sorghum well you know just like

1:08 In uncertain circumstances, sometimes the best option is to risk the least money. Yeah, but that very seldom is the best option.

1:18 To just plant nothing. So getting something cheap out there, get that ground covered. The cheapest cover you can have and.

1:29 A lot of times the this coast fits that bill and it can be used as a silage crop. It can be used as a hay crop, can be used as.

1:38 A grazing crop, it's pretty versatile. It's not great at anything but it's good at a lot of things. And again, it's cheap and that's hard to beat. So it's probably half the cost of like a top-line BMR sorghum, but you're getting way more than half the value and the benefit out of it with not much risk. It's, you know, 75% of the benefit for half the cost.