[AT] Ice storm----milo

Sat Dec 7 08:37:00 PST 2013

It's not pearl millet.  I have noticed it too, to tell the truth I assumed it was just a weird sorghum mutation.  

While on the topic, I have another sorghum/milo question.  My dad got hold of a few hundred bushels of it a few years ago when we had a terrible corn year, to make hog feed out of.  I always sort of thought the grain was about the size of a soybean, but this stuff was tiny--less than the size of a BB.  It was also nasty, gosh-awful dusty stuff.  I was glad when it was gone!

Al

-----Original Message-----
>From: Len Rugen <rugenl at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Dec 7, 2013 10:51 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Ice storm----milo
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>If it has a tight, nearly white head, it could be pearl millet.  I planted it a few times for foot plots, the birds REALLY like it, deer didn't pay much attention.  I wanted something to block the view of some road hunters, it needed to be taller than  milo, so it did that nicely.
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>Len Rugen
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>On Saturday, December 7, 2013 8:55 AM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
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>I don't know John.  There are big fields of this stuff, all the same, and 
>then
>down the road a ways there is regular milo.  I keep looking for someone
>to ask about it but never see anyone out around any of the fields.  I'm 
>passing
>by it at 60 mph so I can't tell what sort of seed it has but it appears to 
>be very small.
>I would think it would require a combine that is capable of combining grass 
>seeds
>to pick it.   Like milo there is a lot of plant compared to the amount of 
>seed.
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>Charlie
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>-----Original Message----- 
>From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
>Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2013 7:48 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] Ice storm----milo
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>Don't know what it could be either. Every once in a while I see a massive
>stalk that is up around 7-8 foot tall, but healthy. I have seen a few plants
>of some sort that look like Johnson Grass (it's not) given the way the head
>is shaped. I haven't bothered to see what the seed looks like to know if it
>is deformed milo or a weed. Last year I talked with a fellow deep in an area
>that has been growing milo for a long time. He mentioned a weed they get
>that resembles milo, think it was called shattercane. I wonder if that is
>what I am seeing, maybe it got mixed in with the seed, I don't know where
>our seed comes from.
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>John Hall
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>-----Original Message----- 
>From: charlie hill
>Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2013 5:08 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] Ice storm
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>John,  I've been passing through the upper corner of Sampson Co and
>spending some time in Johnson Co. lately and I keep seeing a crop
>that looks like anemic milo.   The plant it's self is very similar but not
>as bushy as milo and the top is more like grass.  Similar to the top of
>Johnson grass.  Do you know what that is?  The tops of this stuff
>fan out like a hand with the fingers spread compared to milo that is more
>like a closed fist.  The grain appears to be smaller seed than milo.
>Most of it has been combined now but some is still in the fields and it's
>already starting to lay down (the stems breaking over and the plant head
>laying down across the mass of bushes).
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>I can't figure out what it is.  It's something new to this area.
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>Charlie
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>-----Original Message----- 
>From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
>Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 10:25 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] Ice storm
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>At 8:30 tonight I was sitting in my truck with the windows rolled down
>waiting to pick up the kid, didn't even need a jacket, much less a coat.
>Temps are supposed to nose-dive in the morning to somewhere in the 40's and
>then a chance of sleet or freezing rain tomorrow night. I've still got some
>of my milo in the field so I don't want to see much ice!
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>John Hall
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>-----Original Message----- 
>From: charlie hill
>Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 8:25 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] Ice storm
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>I keep hoping that our Canadian friends will SHUT THE FRONT DOOR
>and stop the draft but I guess it's too late.  Looks like it might not reach
>all the way over here to the east coast of NC but I suspect John Hall
>and those to the west of him will get their toes cold.
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>Charlie
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