How to plant sorghum

Sorghum seeds can be used as concentrated feed, and stems and leaves can be used to cut and prepare silage and hay. Compared with corn, sorghum has the advantages of drought resistance, waterlogging tolerance, salt tolerance, high yield and good reproduction, and is a good feed crop to solve the feed source in poor areas. But the grain epidermis of sorghum contains tannin, which is not conducive to feed digestion; When the stems and leaves are young, they contain cyanohydrin glycosides, which will be converted into hydrocyanic acid after entering the livestock, causing hypoxia in the body, leading to breathing difficulties and even death; Nitrate is easy to accumulate in plants for a long time, which is harmful to the health of dairy cows. Therefore, the utilization of sorghum should be highly valued.

Sweet sorghum varieties should be selected for planting forage sorghum. Sweet sorghum stems have high sugar content, strong resistance to leaf diseases, tall plants and high yield. Sorghum should avoid continuous cropping. Continuous cropping will greatly affect the yield, because it consumes more soil fertility, reduces fertility and easily causes diseases such as smut. Sorghum is not strict with previous crops, and beans and leafy vegetables are better. Before sowing, apply sufficient organic fertilizer, dig deep and rake carefully, and level the ground; When sowing, apply a proper amount of seed fertilizer. Sowing can be done in row or on demand, with the row spacing of 60 cm, the sowing depth of 3 ~ 5 cm and the sowing amount of about 1.5 kg per 666.7㎡. After the emergence of sorghum, intertillage and weeding should be carried out, and irrigation and fertilization should be carried out 1 ~ 2 times if possible to prevent and control pests and diseases in time. Sorghum harvested seeds should be harvested after the shell turns yellow. For silage, the stubble is 7 ~ 10 cm when the seed is mature, and it is mowed when the plant height is above 1.5 m when it is used as green feed. Irrigation and fertilization after cutting sorghum can promote the regeneration of stubble without replay. Generally, the seed yield of sorghum is 200 ~ 300 kg /666.7 m2, and the stem and leaf yield is 4000 ~ 6000 kg /666.7 m2.