Harvesting Sorghum-Sudangrass

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[@vontinkles]

What happens in the winter? Does it just stop growing and turn brown or does it completely fall over? Was thinking about using it also around my fence for privacy throughout the year too.

[@anneg8319]

Great idea tying it in bunches before cutting. Maybe could even use a small chainsaw to cut it down? Why are you drying it before using it as a mulch rather than putting it green where you're going to be using it and letting it dry in place? Thank you in advance.

[@kingdele01]

Boy! That's a lot of food for cattle. And they will mulch it within 48hrs.

[@bettytuohy9875]

Did it make it through the winter, and did it come back the next year.

[@herrickkimball]

It dies off in the winter.

[@portiaholliday8741]

That's a nice allotment of Sorghum Sudan grass. I shoulda planted mine:-} I used my Winter Rye grass the same way. I'll plant it again this month. The rats are back so I'll have to mix up some more Havoc dough. The deer have relearned my garden now that we're going thru a drought. I will definitely plant Radish bc I love the winter kill. I am not going to plant many Turnips bc they winter over and become a big responsibility although i do love their yellow flowers.

[@thehomeplatespecial597]

Portia Holliday what is havoc dough? also what does radish winter kill mean?

[@masonkoller8962]

The Home Plate Special It means the frost kills it 👍

[@thehomeplatespecial597]

awesome video. did y'all salt your hay up in the barn to dry it out when you were growing up. Green Deane on Eat the Weeds had mentioned that is what was done where he grew up.

[@farmbeet2542]

I have a friend who was salting his hay back in the 1980's. First I ever heard of it.

[@Alwis-Haph-Rytte]

Salting hay is to help prevent damp hay from heating up from bacteria and catching fire. Sometimes a storm is coming and would ruin and mold the almost dry hay. The hay is put in the barn spread out, not stacked and salted. Barns burn every year because the hay was baled a day early, but the farmer didn't know the old method of salting hay. Never had to do it myself, we only put dry hay and straw in our 3 barns.

[@thehomeplatespecial597]

several people have told me they spread out dry hay and salt it up in the barn. helps keep things preserved and dry. i am sure barns can get moist or have leaks too. i am just repeating what I was told. hot dry material combusts too. so it sounds like a fine line. like perfecting popcorn kernels with a given moisture. for sure wet hay will start composting like most organic material. it is like a wackamole game of how many ways can hay burn. Steamboat captains burnt some boats down with it when too close to the torches etc. Hay is dangerous wherever it goes! I suppose it will be blamed for making cows make methane. 😀

[@Alwis-Haph-Rytte]

@@thehomeplatespecial597 Lots of people make guesses, but salt draws moisture. So salting dry hay just makes it salty. Some salt it out of tradition without knowing the original purpose of fire prevention. Just like silage, you want it wet so it can't burn. And sometimes a silage pile does catch fire because of a dryer spot that heats up enough to burn. We always seeded down the top of our bunker silo with wheat or oats to seal it so there wasn't dry spots. Farmers use plastic or tarps these days.

[@rennells]

Give it to your chickens