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Sorghum question
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04/08/15 06:36 PM
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Was just given a few bags of sorghum to try out at our ranch...haven't planted it before. Have any of y'all tried it out? I've heard dove have enjoyed it, as do deer when the seed matures in the fall. What's your thoughts/experiences with planting sorghum?
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04/08/15 08:04 PM
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Dove magnet. Use to hunt over sorghum fields in Hamilton. Thousands of birds.
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04/08/15 08:11 PM
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I don't know yet. But last weekend I planted some to see how it works out. I planted it for the dove, and we will see how the deer like it.
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04/08/15 08:49 PM
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Deer will graze it a bit when it is 3-4", then return when the seeds darken. Dove will run you out of the field if you get in their way. If you don't want to go to the trouble, send me the bags
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04/08/15 08:57 PM
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as others stated, deer seem to like it young and then after seeds darken. Doves loves it. I have planted in my fall food crops mixed with a variety of other seeds and the deer are okay with it but once other things start coming up, the sorghum gets left alone.
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04/08/15 09:20 PM
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Was just given a few bags of sorghum to try out at our ranch...haven't planted it before. Have any of y'all tried it out? I've heard dove have enjoyed it, as do deer when the seed matures in the fall. What's your thoughts/experiences with planting sorghum?
Waste for deer. More of a cover crop. I've killed deer bedded in standing milo but they don't perfer it as a food source
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04/08/15 10:31 PM
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Deer will graze it a bit when it is 3-4", then return when the seeds darken. Dove will run you out of the field if you get in their way. If you don't want to go to the trouble, send me the bags X2 Our renter plants our west fields in cotton or sorghum, we get a lot more deer traffic when he plants the sorghum.
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04/09/15 12:24 AM
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Do not plant sorghum if you have any ill conceived notion that it will benefit deer. It won't. Trust me. They only touch it at a certain growth stage and that is a very small window
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04/09/15 12:37 AM
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At least that's our experience
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Re: Sorghum question
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04/09/15 01:01 AM
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My father in law planted a summer blend last year with millet, milo and clover in North Central Missouri. He mowed half of it a week before dove and had a great week of dove hunting. Later in winter, the deer ate the tops of the milo pretty good. They absolutely killed the oats and winter peas on his fall plots. So, not sure how to gauge the effectiveness of the Milo.
I am going to try a summer blend with soybeans/lablab/milo/brassicas on one of my 1 acre plots next week. On 500 acres that is 80% post oaks, we have 3 alfalfa/clover perennial plots, 4 soybean or lablab plots (doing 2 of each to test) (Spring/Summer) and 3 Oat/wheat/turnip plots (Fall/Winter). This does not include the test plot I talked about above. Should be 10 to 12 acres total planted. May not sound like much, but we have plenty of natural groceries with 35" of annual rainfall. All but 2 of the plots are "kill plots".
BTW, Milo and Sorghum are the same thing.
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04/09/15 01:15 AM
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I thought sorghum was a tree, guess I have a lot to learn.
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04/09/15 01:28 AM
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Its a little early to plant it for dove hunting it only takes about 90 days to mature and head out. But it works great.
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04/09/15 05:14 PM
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Thanks, everyone! We got an acre planted just to test out for the moment - and will likely find a prime spot to drop some to be better timed for the dove opener.
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04/09/15 06:11 PM
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I do mix in sorghum/milo with corn in my spin feeders but that's more for the turkey, about a half a bag hand stirred in to 5-6 bags of corn. I don't think coons like it much either
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Re: Sorghum question
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04/10/15 12:23 AM
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I thought sorghum was a tree, guess I have a lot to learn. Depending on where you live, sorghum is also called Maize. I only pointed this out because many commercial bags of food plot seed call it Milo. Believe it or not, many people don't all the names that various crops are called.
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04/10/15 09:14 AM
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Grain Sorghum is usually called milo. Sweet sorghum is used to make actual sorghum (syrup). When we made sorghum syrup, my grandfather called it broom corn. Used to love cutting a stalk and eating the flesh when we where kids.
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04/10/15 06:18 PM
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Deer will walk past a corn feeder and wheat field to get to a milo patch. If you really want to bring deer in, plant cotton. Deer will flat run you over to feed on cotton.
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04/11/15 01:09 AM
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I thought sorghum was a tree, guess I have a lot to learn. Depending on where you live, sorghum is also called Maize. I only pointed this out because many commercial bags of food plot seed call it Milo. Believe it or not, many people don't all the names that various crops are called. Maize is corn and while Sorghum/Milo and corn are related I have only ever heard of corn refereed to as Maize and usually Zea Maize and in relation to field corn Vs sweet corn
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04/11/15 01:16 AM
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I thought sorghum was a tree, guess I have a lot to learn. Depending on where you live, sorghum is also called Maize. I only pointed this out because many commercial bags of food plot seed call it Milo. Believe it or not, many people don't all the names that various crops are called. Well those people are eat up with the dumb arse. Maize= corn Milo= sorghum
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04/11/15 02:35 AM
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At least I knew what milo and maize were. I learned about milo from the rancher that owns the property my lease is on.
It will certainly draw pigs to a feeder after being soaked in water for a week.
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04/11/15 02:40 AM
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At least I knew what milo and maize were. I learned about milo from the rancher that owns the property my lease is on.
It will certainly draw pigs to a feeder after being soaked in water for a week. Lol- I'll mix some with corn in off season for quail too.
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04/11/15 05:25 AM
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At least I knew what milo and maize were. I learned about milo from the rancher that owns the property my lease is on.
It will certainly draw pigs to a feeder after being soaked in water for a week. Lol- I'll mix some with corn in off season for quail too. Give it a try. Brought this pig into a trap. Baited with nothing but soaked milo. Ate it all.
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04/11/15 11:43 PM
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At least I knew what milo and maize were. I learned about milo from the rancher that owns the property my lease is on.
It will certainly draw pigs to a feeder after being soaked in water for a week. Lol- I'll mix some with corn in off season for quail too. Put some out along your trotline and it will draw those catfish as well.
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