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Overview
Sweet Eat is a very late maturing sorghum x sweet sorghum cross - for pit or wrap silage.
• Very late maturity (80 days)
• Brown Mid Rib ‐ higher digestibility and energy
• Oversized, succulent and palatable leaves
• For stand over grazing late summer-early autumn
• Excellent for pit or wrap silage
• Grows to 3 m tall
| Variety | Sweet Eat BMR |
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| Type | Sudan x sweet sorghum |
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| Seeding Rate (kg/ha) | Marginal dryland | 5-10 |
| Good dryland | 10-20 |
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| Irrigation | 25-50 | |
| Recommended Seed Treatment | Superstrike® | |
| Minimum soil temperature at planting (deg °c) |
15 degrees and rising | |
| Days to grazing | 42-70 |
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| Usage Suitability | Grazing | Very good |
| Green chop | Excellent | |
| Silage | Pit or wrap | |
| Hay | Good |
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| Stock Suitability | All | |
| Grazing Management |
Range or strip graze |
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