Wildlife Grain Sorghum - as the name implies, is a member of the Sorghum genus, all of which tend to be similar. This one will be most similar to grain sorghum or milo varieties. Wildlife grain sorghum is relatively short in stature and may be the shortest of the sorghums we have seen. It is early to medium in maturity when compared to others in the Sorghum genus. Like most other sorghums, it is heat and drought tolerant, an excellent scavenger of soil nutrients, especially nitrogen, can have a risk of prussic acid and is susceptible to sugar cane aphids. It is a warm season annual but fall plantings can make decent growth before frost. Some people claim plants in the Sorghum genus are hard to burn down, possibly due to their height at maturity, but we have not had any problem. Seeding rate was 22 pounds per acre.
These plots were drill planted in 7.5-inch rows in a no-till seedbed on May 15, 2017 at the Noble Research Institute Headquarters Farm in Ardmore, Ok on a Heiden clay soil. Planting depth was about 1.5 inches, seed was placed on top of soil moisture and 2.33 inches of rain fell over the next three days. There was no fertilizer, insecticide, or herbicide applied to this crop. Rainfall was below average after establishment.
