You boys are in the worng on this one... Straight from TPWD ...

Baiting
A hunter may hunt any migratory game bird:

•over standing crops, standing flooded crops and flooded harvested crops;
•at any time over natural vegetation that has been manipulated. Natural vegetation does not include planted millet. However, planted millet that grows on its own in subsequent years after the planting is considered natural vegetation

By the way this reads, all your holes you planted this year will be considered illegal....

From TPWD website...

Baiting
A hunter may hunt any migratory game bird:

•over standing crops, standing flooded crops and flooded harvested crops;
•at any time over natural vegetation that has been manipulated. Natural vegetation does not include planted millet. However, planted millet that grows on its own in subsequent years after the planting is considered natural vegetation;•on or over a normal soil stabilization practice;
•on or over lands or areas where seeds or grains have been scattered solely as a result of a normal agricultural practice except waterfowl and cranes may not be hunted where grain or other feed has been distributed or scattered as the result of:
◦pre-harvest manipulation of an agricultural crop; or
◦livestock feeding;
•over crops or natural vegetation where grain has been inadvertently scattered as a result of entering or leaving a hunting area, placing decoys or retrieving downed birds;
•using natural vegetation or crops to conceal a blind, provided that if crops are used to conceal a blind, no grain or other feed is exposed, deposited, distributed or scattered in the process.

A hunter may not:

•hunt migratory birds with the aid of bait, or on or over any baited area;
•hunt over any baited area until 10 days after all baiting materials have been removed;
•hunt waterfowl or cranes over manipulated planted millet, unless the millet was planted not less than one year prior to hunting;•hunt waterfowl or cranes over crops that have been manipulated, unless the manipulation is a normal agricultural post-harvesting manipulation in accordance with official recommendations of State Extension Specialists of the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agricultur

•hunt waterfowl or cranes over manipulated planted millet, unless the millet was planted not less than one year prior to hunting;

DU spends a lot of WASTED time and effort on millet and drainable flats IN THE SOUTH

The state of Oklahoma is in big trouble then cause they plant millet by the ton on many public hunting lakes. Along with several other state wildlife agencies.

Exactly...

I guess it is really down to how someone chooses to intemperate "freshly".

When you scatter millet seed to plant, you hunt over that is baiting if there is seed on the ground. The seed needs to be gone for 10 days before you can hunt over it.

I am not going to argue with you here, like I said, just looking for what is definitively legal. The fed reg I posted is the complete section with no inclusion of the word "manipulated", the only wiggle room I see is in the use of the word "freshly"

You obviously did not read the last sentence of the reg you posted because it does talk about not "manipulating or disturbing"