Milo Harvest - pics

David from Kansas

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What we were doing last Friday before the weather changed. We were getting along good with my son's milo harvest. This field was really yielding well, I would guess in the 90 bushel per acre range. This is my son on the 9610 and I was running the 9600.
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I am not familiar with milo. What would be an average yield? For some reason I thought milo was planted in rows and harvested with a corn head.
 
Not sure what an average yield is, maybe 70-80 bushel. You are right, planted in 30" rows. Hard to tell looking across the field. This field is all terraced. We only use a row head if there is lodging. We cut a field previous to this with the row head. A milo row head is different from a corn head, so my son has two different sets of heads, one for corn and one for milo. Also has flex heads for soybeans. These are the rigid grain heads we use for milo and wheat. The advantage of using the grain heads is that we can cut 30' but only 8 rows with the row head as it is planted with a 8 row planter.
 
Good looking milo, I always liked the whites and cream seemed like they always yielded a little better than the red. But as anything else I?m sure there has been a lot of changes since I raised it.
 
Can you get it to dry down enough so the elevator will take it or are you feeding it?
 
Until lately, we were getting milo in the 12s and 13s for moisture. Then we had several days of cloudy and humid weather and when it finally got down to the 14s my son decided to go ahead with harvesting as we had several hundred acres left to cut. This is in central Kansas.
 
David ,we guit raising milo back in the mid 80s,.i like what you guys are doing and always liked the looks of a milo crop .and dont recall any itching from the dust .. But , something is different?, We were making that kind of yield here in southern Ind with red milo in the late 60s on ground that would barely grow 100 bu corn and 35 bu wheat ,,.. and Our heads looked bigger ,,.. and yes,, it was a bear to Get it to dry down.. consequently , we learned since we were waiting to harvest at Christmas to dry, we used fields that we could pasture , mostly sows. they would clean up after the cows stomped the winter wheat we broadcast behind the combine..We would Bushog and bale the stubble fields in the far away from animal fields ,but getting weather was a crapshoot . We would double crop behind frost seeded pastured winter wheat .. take the animals off and spread liquid hog manure. when the ground was froze or on top of the snow .. it worked very well on this marginal hilly upland ground that had red clay only 5 inches below in most places,.. the old timers when i was a boy told us most this land here was"wheated to death" from 1900-30s .. and a lot simply washed away down the streams..
 

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