Super Cover Sorghum Sudan: A Budget-Friendly Warm Season Grass

0:04 All right. Well, we're out here in our warm season grass test plot. These plots were put in back in early April. It's now mid-August, so you're looking at about 70 days of growth. This is Super Cover sorghum-sudan.

0:16 And this is just a normal conventional sorghum-sudan cross. So, they took a sorghum plant, a sudan grass, sudan grass, crossed them, and we get Super Cover. So, there's not a ton of extra special traits about this plant.

0:29 But it still has a lot of good uses. So, here at 72 days, you know, the seed heads are out and we're going to have we're pollinating. We're going to have viable volunteer seed here pretty soon. But if you would have hayed or grazed, you know, several weeks ago, you

0:41 Could have beat the seed heads and not have that issue. The main fit for this is if you're looking for just a kind of your lower cost, normal, good sorghum-sudan cross, then this is probably the product you know, we'd point you to.

0:54 Of something that's a shorter season, not looking to take advantage of a full growing season, you have an end date where you're going to be grazing or haying to control the volunteer seed. Super Cover can have a good fit.

1:04 Yeah, so the main trait this has is cheap. And hey, that's important to some folks. And again, in the right situation, why spend more if you just need a basic sorghum to produce lots of.

1:17 Tonnage, lay lots of carbon down on the soil. This is a great go-to. It's just a super basic. I think they call this a three-way cross. They're crossing sorghum by sudan and then cross it back against another sorghum. So almost every company has just a basic.

1:47 Spend a little extra money and go with one of the better hybrids that is specifically designed for that. But if you just need a general purpose sorghum to lay lots of carbon down onto your soil, Super cover is not a bad way to go. I always encourage guys to really

2:01 Like look at the leaves on the Sorghum Sudan plants because you know like, oh man, look at all this height I must have a lot of feed out there. But if you go to graze it, you know the reason it's cheap is because it's not going to be the highest tonnage in terms of yield. So if

2:15 I carried this plant over to one of our more improved varieties, these node spacings would look huge and the leaves would look pretty narrow. So if you are looking for really good forage for grazing or haying, I am going to like you said pretty well encourage you.

2:28 Hey, spend a little bit more per acre. Maybe we do fewer pounds per acre but we still do a higher quality product. But if you're not after the forage, you're going to take it sooner, then this can still be a perfectly good product and I wouldn't discourage anyone from using it, but just it's not all about height when it comes to Sorghum Sudan. You need to look at the leaves.

2:47 But yeah, Super Cover Sorghum Sudan.