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Milo, Sorghum, Millet? #7783789
01/27/23 09:55 AM
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What's the main differences? I'm looking for a waterfowl/ upland food plot #1- do whitetails browse the leaves or seed heads?

Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7783811
01/27/23 10:32 AM
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Great food sources for WF, game birds, and deer. Deer will eat the grain heads.


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Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7783812
01/27/23 10:34 AM
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Milo is sorghum I think. Millet is the tiny seed in wild bird seed. They don't seem to like it much. Pretty much just a filler.


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Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7783814
01/27/23 10:35 AM
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Depending on your deer density, deer will eat all your milo/sorghum seed heads. Millets have smaller seeds and dont seem to be favored by deer. My deer also largely do not browse any of these plants as far as the vegetative material. I use millet for my waterfowl/upland plots. Browntop and dove proso for the dryer sites and japanese and chiwappa millet for the wet sites.

Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7783816
01/27/23 10:38 AM
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Milo is grain sorghum you do have forage sorghum also. Milo will stand better then millet long term.

Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7783903
01/27/23 01:15 PM
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Yup sorghum is a grass that has several cultivated forms with some overlap in some selections.

Milo is grown for the seed heads. The seeds are used much in the same was as corn. Ground, popped, stewed, etc..

Sweet sorghum is grown for the sweet juice in it's stalks. Used much like sugar cane, particularly in areas to cold for sugar cane.

Some selected cultivars are used for both.

Forage sorghum is grown for neither seed nor juice but for it's leafy content as cattle feed.

And then you have broom corn which isn't a corn at all but another sorghum grown for it's bristled stalks used for, you guessed it, brooms.


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Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7784036
01/27/23 04:02 PM
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Deer are much like a goat They will eat anything and everything they can get in their mouth. Some time ago I was set up on an edge of an alfalfa hay field that had been mowed about a month or so earlier so it was plenty of new fresh growth It was archery season and the evenings where beginning to get cool .So I expected the deer to come out to feed in the new growth hay field. Well they did but they where feeding on the multiflora bushes that where on the edge of the field If you are looking for something that the deer like along with doves pheasants quail and turkey you can't go wrong with sunflower .

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Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7784039
01/27/23 04:12 PM
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Bees also love sunflower, matter of fact you need bees to make seed. Also a recent study noticed a marked decrease in varroa mite numbers in colonies that had access to sunflower pollen. Further studies are ongoing to determine exactly why.


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Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7784041
01/27/23 04:13 PM
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Not sure a out your deer density, but my deer love sunflowers. Had some great looking flowers the first couple years. Year three, they never let a sunflower get over 6” tall across a five acre field. If the deer will let them grow - they are great for upland game. They arent so great for waterfowl. Seeds rot quickly when wet

Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7784096
01/27/23 05:41 PM
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I don't know much about milo or millet but there are many varieties and variations of sorghum. We have quite a bit of grain head sorghum grown in our area that is contracted to KayTee for bird feed. The plant is about 4-6 feet tall instead of 8-10 like corn, stands well and deer will eat it readily. So will black birds and also pollinators earlier.. Not as much raised here the last couple years with corn going over $6 and beans over $13. It can be drilled in so it is not as fussy to plant as corn. weed control with the right chemicals works well too. Fertilizer mixes would be similar to grasses or corn. Amount depends.

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Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7784099
01/27/23 05:47 PM
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Sorghum is a pleasant change from the corn/soybean menu common to ag lands up here these days, I don't think millet would be a bad choice either.

Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7784166
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Barley and Field Peas are both really good attractors for waterfowl. If you plant Millet make sure it’s the white variety and not the red.

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Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7784388
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Morning dove will come to millet.

Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7784406
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Deer will pound millet as it comes up. Plant enough they can’t destroy.
They will occasionally mess with Sorghum, but not enough to worry about.

Ducks, dove, and quail will pound the seeds out of both. Someone already pointed out that grain sorghum and milo are basically the same. Just remember if planting for ducks, plant in an area where the water can be added to reach the seed heads. Any crop planted specifically for ducks can’t be manipulated.

Now this is just my own personal observation on the properties I trap and hunt. We plant browntop millet for our dove fields and fill in logged areas with grain sorghum for cover and seed. The millet is where I place my cameras to pick out what deer need taken out for the season. Also provides plenty of cover while growing.

Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7784816
01/28/23 11:48 AM
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If you want deer in your sorghum add cow peas.

Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Wanna Be] #7784870
01/28/23 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
Deer will pound millet as it comes up. Plant enough they can’t destroy.
They will occasionally mess with Sorghum, but not enough to worry about.

Ducks, dove, and quail will pound the seeds out of both. Someone already pointed out that grain sorghum and milo are basically the same. Just remember if planting for ducks, plant in an area where the water can be added to reach the seed heads. Any crop planted specifically for ducks can’t be manipulated.

Now this is just my own personal observation on the properties I trap and hunt. We plant browntop millet for our dove fields and fill in logged areas with grain sorghum for cover and seed. The millet is where I place my cameras to pick out what deer need taken out for the season. Also provides plenty of cover while growing.


This just goes to show every place is different. I plant millet because my deer wont eat it. One of the few things I can grow they wont eat

Re: Milo, Sorghum, Millet? [Re: Eagleye] #7784911
01/28/23 01:36 PM
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As always thanks for the great info- we knocked down a few birds today at the club... does this look like Sorghum? It's late season and gets pounded with dog and foot traffic but holds up well and seems to be extremely resilient.
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