Brown top millet vs pearl millet

[skyhightree1]

ok I have never planted brown top millet but usually do pearl millet. Does brown top grow back after grazing like pearl millet does? I cant find any pearl millet locally except one place and its 100 per 50lb bag and my other farm store has it for 45bucks for brown top. Does anyone regularly plant brown top?

 

[FungusProudKY31]

Brown top rushes to maturity in spite of management. You can let it reseed to sort of have a second crop but I have never seen it respond well to efforts to curtail maturity. Keep it short and it will make seed heads on short stems.

If you have good soil fertility look at a mix of bin run corn, sudan or hybrid haygrazer and cowpeas. you can add sun hemp. It allows multiple grazing if you control the amount removed per rotation.

 

[skyhightree1]

Brown top rushes to maturity in spite of management. You can let it reseed to sort of have a second crop but I have never seen it respond well to efforts to curtail maturity. Keep it short and it will make seed heads on short stems.

If you have good soil fertility look at a mix of bin run corn, sudan or hybrid haygrazer and cowpeas. you can add sun hemp. It allows multiple grazing if you control the amount removed per rotation.

Yea I definitely want it to grow back like pearl does I guess I will just bite the bullet on the pearl millet. Thanks for your input

 

[Stocker Steve]

Seeding rate per acre of (small) pearl millet seed is low er...

 

[skyhightree1]

Got some bags luckily came in with my usual supplier

 

[Allenw]

That's the stuff, I've been planting it at 15lbs per acre.

 

[skyhightree1]

Coming on uo

 

[Stocker Steve]

How much rain has your millet seen?

 

[skyhightree1]

How much rain has your millet seen?

2 inches

 

[Stocker Steve]

Mine got 0.2 inches

 

[LocustDaleCattleCompany]

I've got some Sudan and Pearl in the ground about 25 days ago. Going to bale some and graze some.

 

[skyhightree1]

I've got some Sudan and Pearl in the ground about 25 days ago. Going to bale some and graze some.

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looking good.. I just noticed youre in va are you getting rain?

 

[LocustDaleCattleCompany]

looking good.. I just noticed youre in va are you getting rain?

Enough. Not like prior summers where we had lots of rain but timely. Now other people in the area haven't been as lucky. It's been very spotty the past month and we have been mostly on the receiving side.

 

[LocustDaleCattleCompany]

looking good.. I just noticed youre in va are you getting rain?

Y'all been getting any? East of us towards Fredericksburg and Richmond have gotten more than us.

 

[skyhightree1]

Y'all been getting any? East of us towards Fredericksburg and Richmond have gotten more than us.

I'm in dinwiddie and it's sporadic it's crazy. This is a weird year

 

[LocustDaleCattleCompany]

We are that far apart, small world.

This is some of the Sudan and Pearl Millet we will be grazing. Before we drove the post and after we finished one side of the new pasture.

I'm in dinwiddie and it's sporadic it's crazy. This is a weird ye

 

[LocustDaleCattleCompany]

I'm in dinwiddie and it's sporadic it's crazy. This is a weird year

Funny you said sporadic. I was cutting hay today on part of the farm and it was bone dry. Saw a few little storms around but nothing crazy. When I started heading home through the farm I noticed puddles of water everywhere. Pulled up FarmLogs and parts of the eastern side of our farm received 6/10" of rain.

 

[LocustDaleCattleCompany]

Should be grazing this next week. Finished driving division fence posts yesterday morning.

 

[skyhightree1]

Looking good I'll cut some and graze some.. this is at my house it grew some after a week and 3 inches of rain