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[Market-farming] Mowing Sudex (Alternate title: be careful what you wish for)
- From: "Gordon Sacks" <gordon.r.sacks AT gmail.com>
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [Market-farming] Mowing Sudex (Alternate title: be careful what you wish for)
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:51:50 -0400
I planted Sudex (Sudan Grass/sorghum) for the first time as a cover crop/green manure on our clay loam soil with the goals of building biomass.
I read that mowing Sudex when it's 3-4 feet tall stimulates root growth, so I was planning to bush hog it at that height. But it's been so wet that I haven't been able to get out in the fields, and the plants are now a good seven feet high.
1. Should I just let it grow until I'm ready to cut it up and till it under?
2. If I cut it now, will it stimulate root growth? Will it regrow? I wasn't planning to put in a winter cover crop for another month or so.
Upstate New York location, if that matters. Thanks for any guidance.
Gordon
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[Market-farming] Mowing Sudex (Alternate title: be careful what you wish for),
Gordon Sacks, 08/14/2008
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- Re: [Market-farming] Mowing Sudex (Alternate title: be careful what you wish for), sunnfarm, 08/15/2008
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