Begin grazing when plants are 18 
to 24 inches high which allows suffici- 
ent time for sugar to form in the plants. 
Continue grazing until stunted by 
drought or damaged by frost. Then 
take livestock off or prussic acid may 
develop and poison them. Prussic acid 
is destroyed when plants are dried for 
hay. (See USDA Leaflet 88-Revised 
Edition for remedy.) 
For highest yield of good hay, cut 
when first heads appear. Due to the 
juicy stalks the hay is slow to cure and 
may cause some difficulty in poor wea- 
ther. However, it is very grassy and 
very palatable. 
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The harvest of seed can be handled 
in the same manner as small grains. 
Shocking before threshing is recom- 
mended over direct combining. 
The palatability of grazing does not 
deteriorate with maturity as much as 
it does with common sudan. The Ma- 
ture stalks, when cut for bundles, still 
remain palatable. 

