Posted by Texasmark1 on June 30, 2013 at 16:16:23 from (184.20.63.40):
In Reply to: Millet for feed posted by Herald P Ia on June 30, 2013 at 07:47:02:
I just burned out on Pearl. Yield and germination doing all the right things totally sucks for me! I posted this Thursday or Friday, but my volunteer Johnson grass was taller than the cab on my tractor and a beautiful Kelly green. The PM was about 2' looked the color of a tomato worm and germination rate was like 30%. Had to wait for 65 F average soil temp which put me to planting April 27 which is about a month later than anything else planted around here for hay. Two years in a row and that's it.
On digestibility and fondness of cattle, yes mine loved it.....what there was that I was able to harvest.
The recommended cutting height is 6"...............scuse me? How do you manage a haying operation with stubble like that and how do you cut it? Only thing I know is a MOCO jacked up in the road transport height. Reason is, as the instructions say, is to get plenty of sugars in the stems to get the regrowth going. So now, what time of day do I cut? Morning to get sugar in the stem or afternoon to get it in the hay? My cutter is a drum and only cuts 3". By the time the plant is bent over in cutting it's more like 4". I'm waiting on this years regrowth as I type.
The plant has no stem system other than the seed pod. That makes for nice digestibility. But the seed pod is about the size of a nickel, is quite a bit taller than the leaves, and requires crimping if you don't want your crop to lie in the sun for a week....BTDT.
So you hold off bailing waiting for the advertised growth that you are supposed to get with it and get zapped on that.
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