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2024 Premium Sorghum Hybrids

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Global Breeding Program
S&W Seed Company has expanded its global production and treatment capabilities, exporting seeds from the US, Australia, South America, and Africa to over 40 countries. The company collaborates with industry leaders to provide innovative solutions in grain, silage, and forage sorghum hybrids, focusing on traits like increased yield, drought tolerance, and herbicide resistance.
Trait Development
S&W is committed to developing new traits and technologies to enhance sorghum potential, including a prussic acid-free trait for safer livestock feed. Key traits include increased yield, water scarcity resilience, standability, and staygreen.
Sorghum Partners®
With over 40 years of experience, S&W offers a diverse portfolio of premium hybrids and traits, focusing on pest and disease resistance, enhanced digestibility, and herbicide tolerance. The Double Team™ sorghum provides superior grass weed control and higher yields.
Double Team™ Sorghum
This technology combines the DT® Trait and FirstAct™ herbicide for effective grass weed control, leading to higher yields and profits. Proper stewardship is essential for maintaining its effectiveness, requiring both pre-emergence and post-emergence herbicide applications.
Grain Sorghum Traits and Ratings
The document provides detailed ratings for various sorghum hybrids, focusing on traits like emergence, yield stability, drought tolerance, and pest resistance. The DT® Trait allows for superior weed control, while the Staygreen and Stiff Stalk traits enhance standability and yield under stress.
Seeding Rates
Seeding rates vary based on yield goals and environmental conditions, with recommendations for different planting scenarios, including delayed planting and narrow row spacing.
Hybrid Descriptions
The document details several sorghum hybrids, highlighting their maturity, grain color, yield potential, and specific traits like drought tolerance and pest resistance. Each hybrid is suited for different growing conditions and regions, offering options for both dryland and irrigated fields.
Overview: The document provides detailed information on various sorghum hybrids, focusing on their traits, ratings, and suitability for different agricultural needs. It includes specifications for different sorghum types, their maturity, yield potential, and adaptability to various growing conditions.
Key Sections:
  • Traits and Ratings: The document outlines specific traits such as Double Team (DT), Brown Mid-Rib (BMR), Male Sterile (MS), and Photoperiod Sensitive (PPS). Each trait offers unique benefits like herbicide tolerance, increased digestibility, and flexible harvest windows.
  • Hybrid Descriptions: Detailed descriptions of various hybrids such as SP2707 DT, SP2606 BMR, NK300, and others are provided. Each description includes maturity, height, yield potential, and specific traits like drought tolerance and standability.
  • Seeding Rates and Conditions: Recommendations for seeding rates under different moisture conditions are given, emphasizing the need for adjustments based on environmental factors and planting delays.
  • Numeric and Tolerance Legends: The document uses a numeric legend to rate characteristics from excellent (1) to poor (9) and a tolerance legend to indicate susceptibility levels.
  • Hybrid Performance: Performance ratings for leafiness, drought tolerance, standability, early growth rate, and forage yield potential are provided for each hybrid.
Data Summary: Tables and charts in the document summarize key data such as seeds per pound, relative height, and yield tonnage, providing a quick reference for comparing different hybrids.
Conclusion: The document serves as a comprehensive guide for selecting the appropriate sorghum hybrid based on specific agricultural needs, environmental conditions, and desired traits.
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\|/ SORGHUM PARTNERS! WQ Double Team A BRAND OF S&W SEED COMPANY SORGHUM CROPPING SOLUTION

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Sorghum Partners’ For over 40 years S&W Seed Company has bred proprietary seed to mitigate challenging growing conditions, and provide the world's growers with higher yields and better profits. Utilizing elite germplasm, our Sorghum Partners portfolio offers the largest and most diverse platform of premium hybrids and traits available. Our innovative sorghum traits, developed from both classical breeding and biotechnology, deliver hybrids with improved performance-such as higher yields, even in some of the world's toughest drought conditions. We respond to needs for pest and disease resistance...

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Double Team™ Sorghum Double Team sorghum is the ‘best-in-class’ herbicide tolerant technology in the market today. Double Team hybrids are bred with S&W’s DT® Trait—an elite technology developed specifically to tolerate quizalofop, the active ingredient in the herbicide FirstAct™ . Unencumbered by weeds, Double Team sorghum delivers unprecedented yields and profits that conventional systems cannot match. Superior Grass Weed Control FirstAct herbicide utilizes ADAMA’s proprietary formula for superior grass weed control. When applied to a field of Double Team hybrids, growers get reliable and safe,...

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Grain Sorghum Traits and Ratings DT® Trait is Double Team™ sorghum which tolerates FirstAct™ herbicide to enable superior over-the-top grass weed control and bigger sorghum yields. Stiff Stalk Trait improves stand-ability by increasing stalk rind thickness, for more structural strength and tolerance to stalk rots. Staygreen Trait allows the plant to maintain green leaves under stress to produce carbohydrates through photosynthesis and reduce remobilization. SCA Trait is Sugarcane Aphid tolerant sorghum offering industryleading protection from a range of sugarcane aphids. White and yellow sugarcane...

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Yield Stability Yield Stability Drought Tolerance Drought Tolerance Drought Tolerance Drought Tolerance Yield Stability Yield Stability MEDIUM EARLY MATURIT Y MEDIUM MATURITY MEDIUM MATURITY SP 30A30 DT is a bronze grain, early maturity hybrid with high yield potential. The hybrid is ideally suited for dryland acres in the Great Plains where higher soil pH may be a problem. Can also be utilized as double crop in area with longer growing seasons. SP 45A45 DT is a bronze grain, medium-early maturity hybrid with high yield potential. This hybrid is ideally suited for dryland or irrigated acres....

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Grain Sorghum Yield Stability Yield Stability Drought Tolerance Drought Tolerance Drought Tolerance Drought Tolerance Yield Stability Yield Stability Yield for Maturity Yield Stability Standability Drought Tolerance Threshability SP 65M60 VERY EARLY MATURIT Y MEDIUM-EARLY MATURITY MEDIUM MATURITY SP 25C10 is an early hybrid with cream colored grain on a purple plant. This hybrid is very well adapted to the Northern Plains and late planted double crop systems in the Great Plains. SP 25C10 is well suited for late disaster replants following failed cotton acres as late as mid-July. Very good drought...

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Grain Sorghum Yield Stability Yield Stability Drought Tolerance Drought Tolerance MEDIUM MATURITY SP 66M16 is a medium maturing, bronze grain hybrid that is an excellent fit for the High Plains. This hybrid has high yield potential under irrigation and high yielding scenarios. It has both Stiff Stalk and Staygreen traits for improved yield and standability under stress. This medium-full, bronze grain hybrid has very high, stable yields with superb tolerance to anthracnose, all downy mildew pathotypes, and white sugarcane aphids. SP7715 has a uniform appearance, a semi-open head, and very good...

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Silage Sorghum Traits and Ratings 4P DT® Trait is Double Team™ sorghum which tolerates FirstAct™ herbicide to enable superior over-the-top grass weed control and bigger sorghum yields. BMR Trait is brown mid-rib sorghum which produces lower lignin content for increased plant digestibility, leading to higher feeding efficiency and less manure. MS Trait is male sterile sorghum which does not produce pollen or grain in most environments. Male sterile hybrids convert the carbohydrates that would have been grain starch in the stem as sugar. These sugars are quite stable when the hybrid is harvested...

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Forage Yield Potential Early Growth Rate Standability Drought Tolerance Leafiness MEDIUM-EARLY MATURITY Unencumbered by weeds, Double Team sorghum thrives and uses less water— delivering unprecedented yieldsand profits. SP2707 DT is a Double Team hybrid with medium-early maturity that produces high quality silage because of its large grain head. It reaches silage harvest in 100-110 days. Double Team Silage Sorghum Double Team™ sorghum tolerates FirstAct™ herbicide, giving you control over Crabgrass, Volunteer Corn, Sandbur, Barnyardgrass, Texas Millet/Panicum, Foxtail, and more. • Tolerates FirstAct...

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Silage Sorghum Forage Yield Potential Forage Yield Potential Forage Yield Potential Early Growth Rate Early Growth Rate Standability Drought Tolerance Leafiness Drought Tolerance Drought Tolerance Early Growth Rate MEDIUM-EARLY MATURITY SP2606 BMR is a medium-early maturity hybrid that produces high quality silage because of high grain content and the brown mid-rib trait. This hybrid reaches soft dough in approximately 95-100 days. SP1727 is an MS BMR hybrid forage with superior forage qualities and tonnage over other BMR products when properly managed. Its male sterile qualities will keep more...

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Forage Yield Potential Forage Yield Potential Forage Yield Potential Forage Yield Potential Early Growth Rate Early Growth Rate Early Growth Rate Drought Tolerance Drought Tolerance Drought Tolerance Drought Tolerance Early Growth Rate Forage Yield Potential Early Growth Rate Standability Drought Tolerance Leafiness MEDIUM MATURITY FULL MATURITY FULL MATURITY SP1792 MS is a male sterile, silage sorghum hybrid with a sweet, palatable stalk. It will not produce seed unless it is pollinated by another sorghum plant. This hybrid is high yielding and produces excellent quality hay, greenchop, and...

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