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Irrigation Termination for High Plains Grain Sorghum

High Plains When can I stop irrigating grain sorghum? Irrigation cut-out will most likely occur prior to hard dough stage.  The sorghum seed will proceed through grain development from watery ripe to milky ripe to mealy ripe (the seed when squeezed no longer squirts, but oozes a gel-like or mealy material) then begins to firm at soft dough on to …

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Cutting Field Sorghum Plant Population

Statewide Plant population in grain sorghum is a key to fitting your production potential to field conditions. But seeding rate does not equal plants per acre, and just because you set an air-vacuum planter to a target seed drop doesn’t ensure you are close to that number of seeds let alone plants. Whether you have an existing crop in West …

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