Greenfeed is intended to be grazed off when the plants are between 5-7 foot high or 8-11 weeks. Has broad, flat leaves that grow 8 to 16 inches long, that taper to a sharp point. I have been told that Wild Rice can be planted in standing water if soaked for a couple of days, and then put in a sack, and turned over every day. If you ask can I plant japanese millet around my pond to attract ducks for hunting and I have no combine to harvest, no sales tickets from past years, ect, can I hunt over it. Uses: Japanese millet is also known as Jap or Duck millet. This also explained why ducks are so greatly drawn to rice fields. Millet is a small grain that you will often find in commercial poultry feeds. It could be in the ground for over 6 months before the season begins. Burned millet and fresh dirt has kilt a lot of dove. The major component is a specially selected variety of Japanese millet plus a light addition of grain sorghum and buckwheat all plants that waterfowl relish. It thrives in moist conditions. Reply. 20% PENNSYLVANIA SMARTWEED. Replies (2) Share: 0 0. Here are the reasons why 1) It is incredibly cheaper. A lease has some advantages. A new species of barnyardgrass millet is growing in Arkansas County, Ark. If you have hot summers, a shady spot is a good idea. How well does millet grow in a swampy area? Proudly created with Wix.com Wix.com Ducks Love Japanese Millet. It develops a unique seed head that features staggered maturity. Planting times vary slightly depending on your location, but Midwestern states would plant between July 15th and August 15th. I have also been told not to plant too early, or the black birds will eat it all before duck season. Its easy to grow and the ducks love it. Browntop Millet: Browntop millet is an extremely valuable plant for attracting doves, quail, or ducks. The ducks will always leave plenty of seed so it will volunteer year after year. Should I kill off all the vegetation before planting? Now I know you did not intend to ask that way and not being deceitful at all, I just read it for myself and can see what the intentions were. A lot of duck hunters plant Japanese millet to attract ducks for duck season as it is considered by at least 17 species of northeastern fowl to be a choice food. Back to top. With so many duck hunting clubs managing farms as food plots for waterfowl, planting millet has almost become essential to holding ducks during the winter months. Late May or early June is when you plant jap millet..sorry but you wasted your money unless ducks like the stems Click to expand Oct 1, 2016 #9. Japanese Millet can be a valuable food plot addition whether you are trying to attract waterfowl, turkey, quail, dove, pheasant or whitetail deer. If the weather cooperates, a local farmer is going to plant corn in our other marsh, and we'll have a nice smorgasboard of corn, milo, millet, smartweed, and acorns for the ducks. German is an improved variety used for silage, pasture and green-chop. Standing corn, uncut rice and under the right conditions piles of acorns and invertebrates in the woods create plenty of opportunity for waterfowl once they are in Arkansas. Where to put your growing trays . Jap millet not usually as big. Japanese millet planted for Dove Fields should be planted at 5-10 lbs. Not too confident about May/June for millet but that's typically when I would do wild rice. Both can withstand some drought. This millet should be planted as a pure stand field crop. Japanese millet duck food plots should be planted before the rainy season allowing the plant to sprout and begin growing before the standing water comes in. Japanese Millet Seed - Japanese Millet Seed is commonly used for feeding ducks as this millet will grow in flooded soils or standing water. Both will grow on wet ground. Sprouting grains into fodder during winter weather will require an indoor space where it's a bit warmer, but supplemental lighting is really not necessary. The millet variety was developed by Stuttgart, Ark., consultant Ronnie Helms as a waterfowl forage and is a selection of a naturally occurring millet. Cultivated in China as early as 2700 BC, Foxtail was introduced into the US in 1849 and is grown throughout the Great Plains region. Viagra helps more than 80% of men with erectile dysfunction; so if a low dosage doesn't work for you, talk to your doctor to see if there are any free offers for Staxyn. This mix is easy to grow and produces a ton of seed. Corn, which is often the go to plant in food plots for ducks, needs to be planted in the Spring and can cost upward of $400 an acre. Ducks love wild rice because it is an excellent source of energy, being high in carbohydrates. I have been told, Wild Rice, Jap Millet, Smart Weed, Duck Potatoes, etc.. Planting Instructions: For general ground prep (click here.) Its often fed directly to pet birds like parrots and cockatiels, too. $6.65 /lb. More. If I can plant in June, I plant chiwappa millet. However, its short growing season allows for millet to be planted as late as June or possibly even July. This is a good mix of reseeders. It can also shade out plants like grasses and sedges. How long should I wait to plant after spraying roundup? Seed mature over a period of time beginning from the top of the seed head and moving downward. Bot will grow standing in water when flooded. This weekend or next I plan on planting for this upcoming duck season. It is a long season millet, needing 120 growing days, whereas most other millets are only 60 day millets. Not asking what is legal and what isn't! The seed will slowly drop out of the seed head feeding the ducks over time. I'm already planting jap millet in some other areas, but want to try my hand at milo this year and get a little more variety for the ducks. I helped set up a duck hunting farm around Chico one seasonbiggest draw to the ducks was the BIG LAKEhuge amount of water for birds to roost on over nightand be shot off during the day..but there were many pieces of water to hunt over.flowing water thru shallow areas make for perfect growing and hunting situations.say 50 square yards of water Hey if your looking to plant foods like Japanese millet, smartweed, milo, corn, buckwheat and rice for ducks, in swamps or natural habitats you need to check out SwampWreck.com. Greenfeed can be used where traditionally millet or sorghum have been used. When it's time, broadcast wheat onto those plowed strips and continue to shoot. A lot of things can go wrong in 6 months. Japanese millet may be grown as a forage grass. Southern states can continue planting into September. I have them in several areas where my ducks can dig them up for themselves, or I will dig up a few and toss them into the pen. This allows Chiwapa to be planted earlier in the growing season when rainfall is plentiful and still be standing when the first frost arrives. ThreeAmigos Member. Anyone has any luck or advise in planting millet in a duck pond. 20% AMERICAN SLOUGHGRASS. As far as planting Millet goes I found a myriad of information available on the internet regarding planting specifically for duck hole applications . Red-rooted flatsedge differs from other sedges in that it produces more seed above the ground and no tubers below. It can also be a backup plan if your property is too wet to plant corn earlier in the year and are in need of a fast-growing backup plan to still provide winter forage for your ducks. This year we have decided to plant the entire wetland in millet instead of corn. re: Millet duck pond Posted by BeerThirty on 6/12/20 at 3:11 pm to Luckyk. Produces an abundance of hay in 6-8 weeks. An excellent choice when it comes to what to plant is Golden Millet. Millet likes it on the warm side, so you need to plant it after the soil has warmed up some. Japanese Millet or millet mixture with other plants? 60% WILD MILLET / WATERGRASS. I've been planting jap millet for years in August and early September and that's what works for my swamp. Just as deer hunters do, a lot of duck hunters plant food plots for ducks. Depending on the variety you choose you can expect a maturity date in about 70 days. The browntop millet wasn't really a big success. Japanese millet seed heads will hold on longer than most millet varieties, even in standing water. The seed will mature on the stalk in 45-60 days. It will tolerate wet and muddy soil conditions while growing and can even be slightly flooded while growing as long as the leaves remain above water. Proso millet, Panicum miliaceum, is the only millet grown for food in the United States. Anyway, you plant the tubers in the spring, they grow into tall sunflowers, and produce more tubers for fall. Because millet can be planted so late in the season, it has been known to be planted as an emergency grain if another crop has failed. Japanese millet is essentially a warm season grass that produces a ton of small seeds that all sorts of ducks seem to love. I have an area that I can flood that the water depth varies on one end from about 3 1/2' to a foot on the other end. Replies (2) Options Top. People plant a variety of crops for ducks, including corn and millet, so why plant wild rice? Nor should it be used by men all over the world as a treatment for erectile dysfunction In 1998 Viagra (sildenafil) was approved by the FDA. BeerThirty Red Stick Member since May 2017 445 posts. Hemp sesbania, or coffee weed, has very little value for ducks. Cultural Practices Millet grows to a height of up to 40 inches, and has large, distinct seed heads. The Japanese millet is a great attractor for early season ducks and we plant some every year. I was thinking about planting some type of sorghum on the deeper end and planting the other half in jap millet. My fodder system is set up outside near the chicken run, making it easy to access and maintain. Chiwappa gets more robust- up to five feet tall with a stem the diameter of your little finger. With as warm as it stays down here, I have gotten two crops of millet before where the millet I cut in late august had sprout, put on seed heads again, and we bush hogged it and shot it in November. For Duck food plots, plant the Japanese millet early in the summer (June-July) depending on the start date of your duck season. Barnyardgrass, commonly called wild millet, is found throughout the state. These guys kill a lot of ducks every year by planting their beaver swamps, cypress breaks, ponds, river bottoms and low grounds. Millet. Although millet fetches exorbitant prices at the feed store, its actually quite easy to grow. Millet is relatively cheap, requires a minimal amount of soil preparation, is very hardy and the ducks love it. But according to a rice consultant, this millet could make you money, especially if you lease out land for hunting. If I have to wait until later in the summer, I plant Japanese millet. Upland birds and many song birds also will feed on Japanese Millet. Japanese Millet is a warm season grass that produces an abundance of grain in as little as 50 60 days. Is milo/millet easier and more cost effective to plant for duck attraction than having standing beans/corn? Due to this preference, it put corn/beans way down the list. If you live in a warm climate, you may be able to get several full batches per year. Plant 20-25 lbs per acre at 1/4" deep. See close up of seed below It can produce up to 1500 lbs / seed per acre! Seems like I saw a presentation years ago about the preferred forage of ducks that the smaller the grain size, the better. Under normal conditions the crop matures in about 65 days, but during dry, stressful conditions it is able to mature faster. If planted too early, all the seed may be gone before dove season begins. But it's also a big attractor to black birds and they're really hard it before the ducks arrive. Oct 1, 2016 #9. Japanese Millet has long been a favorite of waterfowl hunters due to its ability to grow in wet saturated soils. Greenfeed is designed to introduce new growers to the benefits of maize cropping, without the need for investing in expensive equipment or using contractors. Mix #2 . This millet can handle standing water if the young plant doesn't become completely submerged. Dove proso millet produces an abundance of seed that are highly attractive to quail, dove and pheasant when planted on upland sites and to ducks when planted in areas that can be flooded. 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