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| I grow hay millet in a three year rotation with wheat and fallow. I burn down the wheat stubble sometime after harvest, maybe early August, which helps control the amount of sandbur seed for the next year. Two sprays the next spring/summer, the second one right before planting. I stream on 20-30# of N preplant. Shoot for about 12# of Golden German seed in June, usually between the 5th and the 20th, but can probably go a week earlier and for sure a week or more later if forced to.
Perhaps the sandbur issue is soil related. I rarely see them throughout the field. The sandburs are almost always along the edges of the field next to gravel roads.
I might try chopping some millet this year too. I've had some forage sorghum the last two years. It tonned out well, but harvest was a challenge to get moisture levels correct. I want to direct cut, but by the time the sorghum is dry enough to chop, it is getting pretty mature and dropping leaves from the bottom half of the plant. Last year I had some parts of the field that were 8' tall and so juicy it would plug the spout on my old chopper, and other places that only got knee high, burned up and falling over, but the average moisture on the load was perfect. | |
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Hay millet advice.
