Farming Video | First-Time Sorghum Silage and Double Cropping Lessons from Kelly Garrett

13 Sep 251m 21s

Kelly Garrett of XtremeAg is trying something new at Garrett Land & Cattle—chopping sorghum silage for the first time, instead of their usual corn. In an effort to double crop, he followed up chopped rye with a sorghum planting, and now he's harvesting a crop that's running about 17 tons per acre. Kelly shares some hard-earned lessons, like how the allopathic effects of rye slowed down the sorghum and where a better chemical program could've helped with grass control. He also breaks down the nutrient-dense foliar mix they sprayed.

00:00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Gareth Extreme Ag. We're out here doing something for the first time we've ever done a garland cattle. 00:00:05 We're chopping sorghum in the past. We've only chopped corn silage this year in the effort to try to have a double crop. 00:00:11 Uh, you know, like my good friends in the South, Chad Henderson or Johnny Verell, we first put rye in here last fall. 00:00:16 We chopped the rye right around Memorial Day. We then drilled it to sorghum and now we're chopping the sorghum. 00:00:23 It's making about 17 ton of the acre. We think. I was hoping for 20, but there's a few things I've learned 00:00:29 this year that I should do better. I should have probably tried to kill the rye a little bit. The allopath effect 00:00:34 probably held the sorghum back a little bit. I should have had a little bit different or better chemical program. 00:00:38 We did have a little grass come in here that we didn't want. And now I want to talk to you about the nutrient density 00:00:44 that we're trying to obtain with this crop we sprayed on here. Calcium, magnesium, nitro salt, bore on copper, iron, zinc, 00:00:51 Molly, backbone, and BioE. Quite a recipe of products that Patrick and Richie had to put out here, 00:00:57 but it's all in the effort to minerally balance this crop to, so then when we feed it to the cattle, 00:01:03 we can raise nutrient dense cattle. I've talked a lot about that, about producing better food, doing a better job, farming to do produce better food. 00:01:10 It isn't all about quantity. Some of it is about quality, 00:01:14.425 --> 00:01:16.245

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