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

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

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Test to Prevent Nitrate and Prussic Acid Poisoning

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Many Kansas cattle operations rely on some harvested feed to use in the winter months, and shared among those sources is forage sorghum, sorghum-sudangrass, and Sudan. Forages in the sorghum family are prone to two problems in feeding cattle: nitrate poisoning and prussic acid (hydrocyanic acid, HCN…