Rachael Boyle, Phillips-Rooks District Extension Agent Agriculture and Natural Resources

Rachael Boyle, Phillips-Rooks District Extension Agent Agriculture and Natural Resources

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Test to Prevent Nitrate and Prussic Acid Poisoning

Many cattle operations rely on some type of harvested feed to use in the winter months and common among those sources is forage sorghum, sorghum-sudangrass and sudan. Forages in the sorghum family are prone to two different problems for feeding cattle, nitrate poisoning and prussic acid (hydrocyanic…