Harvesting sorghum

Erik Ks farmer · Sep 21, 2009

Ok here it goes. I planted 40 acres of milo to mix with feed. I have heard through the coffee shop bs that a guy can cut it with a cornhead (real nice big heads). Is this a load or is there some truth?

msb · Sep 22, 2009

Soybean rowcrop head, but not a corn head.

Erik Ks farmer · Sep 22, 2009

They claimed corn head. I do not have a row head and don't see the need for such a small amount.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 22, 2009

I have enough milo guards for a 14' st. cut head that I will never use.

MN Scott · Sep 22, 2009

A corn head would just pull the stalks down thru the stripper plates. Don't have sorghum around here but isn't it like a giant stalk of wheat? The whole stalk and grain head would just be pulled down thru the head wouldn't it?

Sam#3 · Sep 22, 2009

Way back when they were raiseing milo around here (SW MO) the cut it with a regular head. The bed was set only low enough to get all the heads. I haven't seen any milo since I moved back nine years ago.

Fergienewbee · Sep 22, 2009

I'd check at an elevator--maybe someone local would harvest for you. I hunted pheasants around Larned; we walked an entire section planted to milo.

Larry in Michigan

greenbeanman in Kansas · Sep 22, 2009

Around 1980 an early snow put a lot of milo down in the area where I lived, mine included. I abandoned cutting with my L Gleaner with milo fingers/guards and hired a fellow that had an L Gleaner with a John Deere corn head on it.

However it was not a standard corn head but had been modified to cut the heads from the stalks. Worked slick as could be and salvaged so much more of the crop than I could get that it no doubt paid to hire the cutter.

Sorry, don't remember more about the set up.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 22, 2009

It was a factory setup but it isn't a cornhead but rather a row crop head. Has knives like a head on a forage harvester and cuts the plant off.

dhermesc · Sep 22, 2009

That would be similar to the "Heston Headers" we would mount to our grain head to pick up downed milo. I was only a kid when we had them but I still remember them being a PIA to mount.

Erik Ks farmer · Sep 22, 2009

dboll where are you located? I would be interested in getting the guards. I have a 13ft grain table.

caterpillar guy · Sep 27, 2009

You can cut milo with a regular rigid grain head we cut hundreds of acres in SW Texas one fall. down by the Seminole and Lamesa area. With a 9600 combine. if it was down the row crop head would be the best choice or you might be able to get by on a small amount with a hume real and flex head.

Ole Shovel · Sep 27, 2009

If crop hasn"t gone down yet why worry about it? If it goes down hire someone to cut it that has a row crop header or a header with fingers and pickup reel. We use to run a JD row crop header it has cutter knives underneath with rubber corrugated gathering belts mounted on chains instead. A corn head has knives with finger chains and rolls. Those rolls will pull in way too many wet sticky sappy milo stalks you don"t want! A row crop header will do a much better job if your milo goes down from bad weather or ice though.

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