Smith, R.Bolsen, K.Ilg, H.Hinds, M.Dickerson, J.Hoover, J.Pope, Ronald V.2010-12-142010-12-142010-12-14http://hdl.handle.net/2097/6933Five silages produced in 1982 were evaluated in two growing trials using 96 steer calves. Forage sorghum silage (heading) was assigned a feeding value of 100. Based on comparative rates and efficiencies of gain, feeding value for the grain sorghum silage averaged 107.5 in Trial 1. The non-heading forage sorghum silage had a value of 64.6 in Trial 1 but only 40.2 before freezing and 31.4 after freezing in Trial 2. The poor values for the non-heading silages were due, in part, to very low feed intakes. There was no advantage in harvesting the non-heading sorghum after a freeze. Rolling the grain sorghum silage to break 95 % of the grain did not improve its value. In Trial 2, adding alfalfa haylage to the non-heading silages did increase steer performance.BeefSorghumHarvestSilageValueConference paper