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Topic: Kansas sorgrum

Posted By: HD6GTOM
Subject: Kansas sorgrum
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 6:22pm

Ok guys we are going by thousands if acres of Milo or sorghum. What in the world do they use this much for?

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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 7:33pm

maybe they make ethanol from it ??

can't believe humans and critters could eat it all !

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Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 7:37pm

I thought Milo and Corn were real close in food value. I know turkeys were eating it real good, at least it was in the '50s and '60s.

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Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 7:54pm

Kinda gotta feel sorry for these guys. There are lakes of water standing every where. I hope they get their crops out. Do they plant sorghum after they combine wheat?

Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 8:05pm

We grew milo when I was a kid. We combined it. We also grew millet for hay. I recall the milo would really itch.

Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 8:08pm

Now you guys know how I feel when I go up to Minnesota and see the vast expanses of corn and beans. I’ve often thought the same, “What could they possibly use all that for?”

Most of the milo is used for its carbohydrates in animal feed, and also for ethanol. I’ve heard it is gaining popularity because it is gluten-free and non-GMO. Supposedly they use it as a substitute for wheat in gluten free bread.
You could consider milo “Great Plains corn”. Same family, but it only requires about 1/3 the amount of water corn uses, which is something we are usually pretty scarce on.

Yes, Tom, it is planted in the spring. Some people double crop it with wheat, but most of the time we don’t have enough water in the soil to do that in western Oklahoma, which is why we let fields lay out sometimes.

Personally, milo is my favorite thing to combine.

Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 8:20pm

Neighbors crop it up to cut it as silage forage for trench silo storage. The other neighbor mowed and baled his outer six rows then rains came on, it all regrew and headed back up, he was as amazed as I.

Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 8:23pm

They do that with cotton in south Texas where it doesn’t get too cold. Pick the cotton, shred the stalks, it regrows, and they pick it a second time.

Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 8:43pm

We grew it and mixed with corn for hog feed. Dad always claimed it was hard on the soil as it took a lot of nutrients out, don't know whether it did or not or whether he just hated combining the itchy stuff.

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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 9:14pm

dad planted it to mix in the hog feed one year. never planted it again. was the dustiest, itchiest, nastiest chit to handle! our humidity made a lot of it mold. look in the bird seed you buy for the wild birds, it's about 95% milo. and the birds don't like it either! I've seen it as a wheat substitute for bread, haven't tasted it yet....oh...wait...maybe I have....it might be called "Sam's Choice" gluten free bread! that was real nasty bread too!

Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2018 at 5:06am

I also recall a lot of farmers used it for a cover crop when planting CRP. Pheasants love it and it made for good hunting.

Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2018 at 8:26am

it IS good cover for game birds, and the geese also like it. almost hafta burn the foliage down after combining to till the ground...it's sum heavy stuff! ours was anyways.

Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2018 at 8:26am

I wondrred, dad would plant 5 or 6 acres of corn and mix the tall sorghum with the seed corn in the planter box. Then we chopped it for silage. Neighbor had an old 720 diesel and 1 row JD chopper and 12 or 15 guys would get together and chop silage. It was all that old 720 wanted this was in the 1960's.