Anyone ever raise Milo???
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Topic: Anyone ever raise Milo???
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Subject: Anyone ever raise Milo???
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 8:25am
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The BTO that farms our place has it all planted in Milo this year. I used to see it in the 1980's but not since then and scratching my head as to why? I know it was late due to wet spring but still plenty of time to plant beans and assumed that was what was planted until it came up. It looks like it is doing good out in the fields but I didn't even know there was a market for it. I guess we will see what the bottom line looks like compared to past years but I'm having thoughts that it might be time for a change on who farms our place. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
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Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 8:38am
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If he pays the rent on time, maintains the fertility, PH levels along with proper stom water management, what do you care of what he plants??? ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 9:43am
Because it is not cash rented, it is by shares so the risks and profit are shared. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
PaulB wrote:Posted By: festus51
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 11:30am
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Here in eastern KS we used to raise alot of milo. Corn received all the development money and milo was left by the side. Corn took over milo ground here. But this year there is a lot of milo. I think the fert and chemicals were all ready applied and it got to late to plant corn, so milo was planted. I Purina uses milo in dog food, chicken feed. The local ethanol plant is going to be receiving milo this fall. ------------- We the unwilling Led by the unqualified Doing the impossible for the Ungrateful |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 12:03pm
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My only advice is stay 'upwind' of the combine if you go out while he is cutting/harvesting... When dad came in from combining milo, you did not get between him and the bathtub/shower. That stuff is the ichy-est grain crop i know. ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: festus51
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 12:23pm
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I 100% agree with Floyd. ------------- We the unwilling Led by the unqualified Doing the impossible for the Ungrateful |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 12:44pm
| we planted a small field of it years ago to feed the hogs. never did that again! milo is used a lot in wild bird food, they don't like it either. there is a use for it...somewhere. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 12:59pm
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We used to have a good amount of it in western OK. I've seen some more being grown in the past few years with wheat prices (and now cotton) down. I heard a farmer once call it "Great Plains Corn" because we don't get enough rain to grow a good crop of corn (12-22 inches annually in the far west and the panhandle area). You see lots of Gleaner CIIs and Deere 95/105 combines in the fence rows of western KS with Hesston milo header attachments. I guess it was very popular up there once too, but now corn dominates, as was stated by festus51.
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Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 2:42pm
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My BIL said this. It's nasty and dirty to harvest. Hard to dry if not impossible and I guess it's used for hog feed. You plant Milo when you can't play anything else. He also said that it can be planted and stay in the scorching sun and two weeks later if it rains you will have a crop. I guess we will see how it goes. Too late to do anything but complain at this point. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 3:49pm
| That was usually a last ditch effort to get any kind of crop in the ground,, good hog feed but it pulls a tractor on the grinder mixer! |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 5:28pm
Yes it was very popular out in Eastern Co/western Ks back in the 70’s and 80’s. It was also used often for a cover crop on crop back in those days in that area. |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 5:33pm
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Bet Festus51 is right, chemicals already down, last option available, probably lucky to get seed. We mixed it for hog feed, I hated being in the truck when Dad unloaded the combine into it, dust always managed to get in the cab with me and I'm starting to itch just thinking about it. ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: 200 allis
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 5:38pm
| Growing 300 acres of milo as a last resort that white tail deer dont like to eat in NJ. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 7:15pm
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Renters are growing Sorghum Milo and harvesting as a Silage crop not for the Seed, have to catch before frosts as forms Prussic Acid and can kill livestock otherwise cattle love the stuff, almost as well as green corn silage. Hauled several loads of Milo seed from Vandalia down to river at Consolidated Barging, still sells well when is sold. Sorghum producers south of here cut the entire field to crush stalks and cook down like Maple Syrup, only stickier and a bit Iron tasting where again as a feed supplement cattle LOVE it. |
Posted By: festus51
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2019 at 7:53pm
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Dmiller I grew up in Farber and went to school at Vandalia. Brothers farm there. ------------- We the unwilling Led by the unqualified Doing the impossible for the Ungrateful |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2019 at 6:51am
| Not much left of Farber, a few houses and a Police department, Vandalia is suffering as the Brick plants shut down. The clay hauls have resumed to the plant south of town but is minimal activity inside, only making spot runs. I hauled from the three different elevators of MFA up there. |
Posted By: festus51
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2019 at 8:25pm
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Yep years ago had 3 plants producing . Like most rural towns Farber is drying up. ------------- We the unwilling Led by the unqualified Doing the impossible for the Ungrateful |