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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.