For the birds

[ksgobbler]

Jap millet

Browntop millet on the pond dam

 

[ksgobbler]

My least successful. Planted a milo/millet/forage sorghum mix and it washed out. Then went browntop and it washed out. Went back with some jap millet and its spotty at best.

 

[SWIFFY]

Nice, what has been your favorite for upland of those???

 

[ksgobbler]

Nice, what has been your favorite for upland of those???

The state gives us a mix that comes from star seed company. It has milos, millets, and forage sorghums in it. I had 3 acres planted 2 years ago, and 2 coveys of quail called it home. Turkeys hammer the Japanese millet. Doves love the brown top millet.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

I feel ya!

 

[ksgobbler]

 

[ksgobbler]

Seeded this low spot last night.

 

[Boll Weevil]

KS - Did ya'll get a crazy amount of rain this year or does your land just sit in a very flood-prone area (or both)? Will there be water in those areas for ducks?

I plant a fair amount for birds each year for both brooding cover and food and believe this has been one of reasons my turkey numbers have skyrocketed...even got a few more quail whistling over the last several years. This is browntop millet with sorghum around the edge; cheap, reliably good food/cover, and will practically grow on concrete.

 

[Freeborn]

What are you guys using for herbicides? Are you doing a burn down and then seeding? Are you using anything after you have planted?

 

[ksgobbler]

For the browntop on the pond dam I sprayed with 2 4 d and gly, then planted.

The big millet plot I had to kill the new crop of sericea the corp left me then broadcast seeded it.

We got 30" of rain in 2 months. We usually get 26" a year. So yes crazy amounts of rain. That low spot holds water after a rain. The other spots are upland areas.

 

[H20fwler]

Nice!
This is the first year I've tried millet it just started heading last week, great draw for a variety of bird species.

 

[TreeDaddy]

KS,

who is your habitat buddy in the pics?

bill

 

[ksgobbler]

Thats Maggie with her summer collar on. She is 2.5 and likes to be everywhere I am.

 

[g squared 23]

Proso millet. A deluge of rain knocked a bunch down, but before that it was a pretty solid stand. Conventional tillage: plow then till, spread and then drag. Didn’t have to spray, it canopied before I could get the 2,4-d to it.


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[ksgobbler]

 

[g squared 23]

Should be ready just in time for the dove opener


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[Catscratch]

I love millet's and sunflowers! Looking good guys.

 

[ksgobbler]

Mowed in preparation to burning it next week sometime.