Same question as the sunflowers. Any body tried to plant milo in a food plot for a dove hunt?

Plant early. I think it’s a 110-120 day maturity and needs time to dry.

I did and it worked great. The deer eat the seed heads I was mainly doing it for the deer and turkeys. I left it standing when I planted winter food plots and set the disk straight and planted into it with it standing. It turned out pretty good. I still had oats growing and the milo was still there for them to eat.

I am planting some this year so we shall see what happens.

How would it do with no-till planting? If so, when to plant?


If so, I assume you’d follow something like: spray the field to kill, spread seed, mow to cover

Them Kansas deer love milo, the big deer are in the milo

WE usually plant in late april early may.

Better know it.

On my perennial clover plots, I won't spray them or cut them until after turkey season. I will cut them first, and then give it a couple weeks, assuming we have rain, and then look at spraying them.


On a field I plan to plant peas/beans/sunn hemp/Milo (sorghum) I just come in when I want to plant and broadcast the seed into the standing crop on the field, and then mow it with my flail mower. I want to use the sorghum as screening too. But we may decide to back up and plant something else to do that.

As much as I like my greenfields to look like a golf course, the deer don't seem to care. Weed control is much more critical in clover plots than the other mix. Plus once it gets warm and on into mid to late june, the other mix will crowd out most all the weeds except johnson grass.

Then in the fall, I come back in and broadcast my fall mix into the standing beans or clover. I really try not to cut anything the month of August. That is an unpredictable month for rain. My goal is to have year round food in my plots.

I did see where you can’t plant Milo until after April 1.

I thought milo and sorghum were the same thing??

They are.

What I thought too. I 've always heard it's milo if it's in the mid-west , grain sorghum if it's in the South. ????

Old timers also called it High Gear around here.

That's right, I went to many a dove shoot when I was younger in "High Gear" fields.

Thanks, good info. I’m considering trying on a section of pasture (grass, no crops). Think that would work? Obviously disturbing the soil would be ideal, but with limited resources, could the throw-n-mow work in a pasture setting?

What’s the guidance from ACES on planting dates and method? This could be of importance on a turkey hunted tract.

I would spray the grass first, then broadcast, then mow. I would broadcast a little on the heavy side.

I have had pretty good success that way, as long as the ground wasn't bare ground. That is the main reason I bought a flail mower. I can open the back of mine up, so it discharges everything out the back. I cut whatever I cut, the big back roller rolls over it, and then out the back goes all the cuttings and its very evenly distributed. As long as I get rain, what I cut is basically mulch and holds moisture which keeps the soil soft and allows everything to grow.

The first time I broadcast a fall mix into a thick standing bean field, I was concerned the field wouldn't do very well. It was shocking how well it did. Yeah you end up with some stalks sticking up, but the deer don't care.