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<blockquote data-quote="Texasmark" data-source="post: 1456585" data-attributes="member: 27848"><p>I don't know. Neighbor had a sorry Milo crop and had it baled back in the summer. As with sorghums and probably other crops, stubble came back with 4-5 new shoots per stubble stick making for small stemmed plants to start with. I let it get up about 18-24 inches and whacked it. Ran the IH 404 over it to crush the stems since I now use a drum mower. Baled it and have some really nice hay with soft, short fat stems and lots of leaf.</p><p></p><p>I figure to drill it at 50#/ac which is what I do with SS and should reduce the size of the stems if it responds to crowding as SS crops do and being a Sorghum why shouldn't it! Then watch the growth and somewhere in there before I see the boot bulge whack it. Being a dry ground crop it will come back with the same 4-5 new chutes per stalk (surely) and that second cutting should be better than the first. </p><p></p><p>Worth a try. Like most folks (I guess) no two years are the same for me. If I'm not trying something different, the weather is hitting me with something different. Guess that's part of what keeps me interested in farming.</p><p></p><p>One thing that did impress me was the Sugar Cane Aphid problem that first occurred here in 2014. This year it hit my SS crop but didn't hit the neighbors Milo crop, nor the regrowth which occurred later on in the summer which is when SCAs are at their worst. Both are sorghums. That in itself is a reason to go with Milo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Texasmark, post: 1456585, member: 27848"] I don't know. Neighbor had a sorry Milo crop and had it baled back in the summer. As with sorghums and probably other crops, stubble came back with 4-5 new shoots per stubble stick making for small stemmed plants to start with. I let it get up about 18-24 inches and whacked it. Ran the IH 404 over it to crush the stems since I now use a drum mower. Baled it and have some really nice hay with soft, short fat stems and lots of leaf. I figure to drill it at 50#/ac which is what I do with SS and should reduce the size of the stems if it responds to crowding as SS crops do and being a Sorghum why shouldn't it! Then watch the growth and somewhere in there before I see the boot bulge whack it. Being a dry ground crop it will come back with the same 4-5 new chutes per stalk (surely) and that second cutting should be better than the first. Worth a try. Like most folks (I guess) no two years are the same for me. If I'm not trying something different, the weather is hitting me with something different. Guess that's part of what keeps me interested in farming. One thing that did impress me was the Sugar Cane Aphid problem that first occurred here in 2014. This year it hit my SS crop but didn't hit the neighbors Milo crop, nor the regrowth which occurred later on in the summer which is when SCAs are at their worst. Both are sorghums. That in itself is a reason to go with Milo. [/QUOTE]
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