While sorghum is a valuable forage crop, sorghum species can produce prussic acid, which can be toxic to livestock. Prussic acid, also known as hydrogen cyanide (HCN), can cause acute toxicity and death.
Livestock owners feeding forage need to keep in mind the potential for some forage toxicities and other problems that can develop this fall. Find out more about high nitrates, prussic acid poisoning and more in this article from Ohio State University.
A frost event, even a light frost, with sudangrass, sorghum, and sorghum-sudangrass hybrids causes prussic acid to build up in the forage. Special steps should be taken to manage the forage to prevent prussic acid poisoning with livestock, says Iowa State University.
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