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Sorghum

AgriTec System · Row crop

Sorghum.

Drought-tolerant. Calcium-loving.

Sorghum tolerates drought well but plateaus on low-calcium ground. The system focuses on Pro-Cal foundation, slow-release N, and foliar micros at heading.

02 / The growth plan

From emergence to harvest: one plan, stage by stage.

The whole sorghum season up top, then the general program below. Every pass is shown at the exact stage it targets, so the picture and the plan line up.

Sorghum growth stages from emergence through maturity
The full sorghum season, stage by stage. Each pass below is pinned to its place on this timeline.
Read this first

This is a general roadmap, not an exact prescription for your farm. No two fields, soil tests, planting dates, or seasons line up the same way, so your stages, rates, and timing will differ. Treat the timeline below as the shape of the program; we size the exact stack and pin every pass to your soil test and your acres.

The plan, pass by pass, pinned to the stage it works

Each pass has a window. Hit it and it pays; miss it and the dollar's mostly spent.

  1. Sorghum at Pre-plant
    Pre-plant Pre-plant

    Pro-Cal

    3 gal/ac

    Foundation Ca + pH.

  2. Sorghum at Planting
    Planting At planting

    10-20-10+

    4 gal/ac

    Balanced N-P-K + micros.

  3. Sorghum at Vegetative
    Vegetative Top-dress

    Nitro-Maxx+

    8 gal/ac

    Sustained N.

  4. Sorghum at Boot–Heading
    Boot–Heading Heading

    YieldMaker

    1 qt/ac

    Kelp + micros at heading.

What's driving the response

Calcium foundation

Pro-Cal raises pH and Ca base sat.

Slow-release N

Nitro-Maxx+ keeps N flowing through heading without volatility loss.

Micros + biology

YieldMaker drives the late-season finish.

That's the general sorghum program

Your fields aren't general. Build yours from your soil test.

Upload your soil test (or key in the numbers) and we'll read every value on it — then build a Good / Better / Best program sized to your acres, with real delivered cost and the break-even ROI. The agronomy is free.

03 / The trial data

We can defend every line.

Documented field results from Southern sorghum acres.

AgriTec on-farm · 2023

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Calcium-led program lifts grain sorghum yields.

Personalize the program · Sorghum

Tell us what you want to grow. We'll do the math.

Set your yield target and drop in your soil test values. Or upload the lab PDF and we'll read it for you. The engine returns a program scaled to your fields.

Your Sorghum program · 100 bu/ac

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Adjust the yield target and add any soil test values you have. The recommendation engine will return a sorghum program scaled to your fields and pinned to specific soil numbers when present.

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Final rates and pricing confirmed by an AgriTec agronomist after reviewing your soil test. The advice is free.

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