Document Type
Circular
Publication Date
2-1945
Department
Agronomy Department
Circular Number
57
Keywords
sorghum, forage sorghum, variety, rancher, hydrocyanic acid
Description
Rancher sorghum has the lowest hydrocyanic acid content of any named forage sorghum variety in production. It contains about one-third of the hydrocyanic acid content of the low-acid Dakota Amber 39-30-S released in 1937 and only about one-tenth of the hydrocyanic acid content of commercial varieties (Table I). It was developed by the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station from a cross of the low hydrocyanic acid strain 39-30-S and a high acid strain 19-30-S and back crossed with the low acid strain 39-30-S. Both strains were selected from Dakota amber variety.
Pages
7
Format
application/pdf
Type
text
Language
en
Publisher
South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Agricultural Experiment Station
Recommended Citation
Franzke, C. J., "Rancher, A Low Hydrocyanic Acid Forage Sorghum" (1945). Agricultural Experiment Station Circulars. 54.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_circ/54