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VTer, that’s another good point, in my beans I would have herds, literal herds of 50 turkeys. In the milo I have not spotted a single turkey. Not that I care to hunt turkeys in fall, but it’s interesting to watch them browse around for a couple of hours during the day and provide them with...

I h I did read a study maybe out of the University of Georgia. Basically the clover had to be strip killed with an herbicide for the corn to grow decent. With 15” rows on the milo that would be a lot of clover killed. I’ll try to find that study and post here

My milo planting next year, I’ll try to plant earlier and will definitely mix in about 50lbs / acre of forage soybeans. As far as deer preference in my area (that I can plant) I think beans followed closely by sunflowers are the best summer annuals that I can plant. I just have to develop a...

SS Early Longtail Milo. Growth was similar, the NW was planted with iron and clay cow peas, the PF was a stand alone planting. The deer mostly came into the PF Milo, but I could attribute that to more non-milo vegetation on the ground and a big ditch next to the PF Milo where all the deer...

Badger, that’s funny. We have about identical experiences except my summer spring was super wet, then I don’t think it rained an inch after I planted around June 20. Judging from the feedback on here, it seems my seed heads were also immature as well; and I’m not seeing any deer preference...

That was my plan, give it another year, maybe they will acquire a taste for it.

Thank you. This was my first year growing Milo, so still in the early parts of the learning curve.

Milo and peas in late July.

White milo in December. It’s worth noting on this hunt, all the deer that came out were browsing on the ground and not the milo

White Milo in August

Red milo in December.

Guys, I just wanted to see if anyone else has been less than impressed with the deer preference for milo both red and white varieties. I had two - one acre plots of milo planted; one was Northwoods milo, one was Pheasants Forever milo. The good - Milo grew great in our record breaking...

Foggy, I tried planting into existing grasses - zero percent survival after year 1. They just didn’t take. I’d run a 3’ weed mat where your road meets the swamp. I think in the 45 degree angle of the road will be too dry or you will need longer cuttings increasing cost. The weed matt...

Guys, I’m in the same boat as all of you. We had a record breaking drought in Northern NY and I’m spending a lot of time/money trying to get plots to perform at our camp 3 hours away. I am going to be adding more clover, establishing alfalfa, and splitting my remains plots into beans and...

Bows - I’ve got some deer over there! You should see my sunflower plants, where the deer have started stripping all the leaves off. My deer density is reasonably high for Northern NY. For whatever reason they aren’t touching the peas, I don’t know if they don’t like them or if it’s like...