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BacNBlak
Posted 1/21/2018 21:37 (#6522253 - in reply to #6520845)
Subject: RE: Another question for veteran milo growers...


Eastern Shore of MD
In our dealings this year, we had a milo buyer for a large, nationwide end user company come meet with us. He had visited states up North (can't remember if it was Michigan or Minnesota?) and they were seeing 200+ bu yields irrigated. We've attempted that 'here' and have never been able to consistently do much better than 130bu. Sometimes we can only get 120 irrigated bu and we have never seen a sugar cane aphid here. We did get some 150 bu milo once but haven't been able to replicate that. He mentioned Kansas growers were in the same boat as us - seeing a yield cap in the 120's - and attributed it to climate and soil types.

If we could push milo yields a little closer to corn as you are saying, I'd forget corn all together. It has its challenges though. We are going to try and keep experimenting with split fert programs, fungicide and so on but the more we treat it like corn, the more i think we should just grow irrigated corn and get 250 bu reliably.
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