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300guy

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Ok so the next thing I want to drill using the Model M is milo. I know there are 56 pounds in a bushel but I have no idea how much to drill for a decent stand of milo without having it too thick to burn it up. I thought I would put on about 13 quarts to the acre but that doesn't show up and there is not a listing for milo. I was looking at the beets chart. The chart for them have 20 inch rows and I am sure mine are 10 inch. So should I use the wheat/barley chart and set it on 1 for 15 quarts.
By the way I have the 8 tooth sprocket.
 
Here in central Kansas dryland conditions we only plant 3-4 lbs/acre in 30 rows which would be about 2 to 3 quarts. (There are about 37 quarts in a bushel.) Your 13 quarts would be nearly 20 lbs giving a rate of around 320,000 seeds per acre which is excessive, even in ideal high-moisture conditions. If planted too thick milo won't produce much of a seed head and the stalks will be very spindly and weak.
 
Ive never seen milp drilled. It has always been planted in rows as far apart as 40in. Ive driving through E kansas going up 19 Hwy to Atchison and usta see several stands of milo, ALL in rows. Did you know that, IN THE PAST, farmers quit planting milo and I hardly ever saw a stand of it by 90, cause of a weed grass called shatter cane got mixed in with the seed to plant. The seeds of shatter cane are the same as heads of milo, s so farmers quit planting it. Dad got some of it when his renter planted milo on his place. Took a few years to get rid of it. I dont know IF theyve developed a remedy for that problem yet or not.
As to seeding, I would look ag any recomindations for sorgum if you have that
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