Brown Top Millet for Winter Stockpile Grazing
Watch Keith Berns and Dale Strickler walk through Brown Top Millet in our Warm Season Soil Builder mix. You'll see why this millet keeps its quality long after maturity, making it one of the best choices for winter stockpile grazing—and why it works so well as an understory plant in mixed plantings.
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0:00 Brown top millet is a little bit different than some of the other millets used more widely in the south but.
0:07 We've seen really good success with it. As we move it north, as well it's got some unique characteristics that set it.
0:13 Apart from the other millets and give each one of these kind of a niche of where you'd use it tell us where you.
0:19 Like using brown top millet dale everywhere.
0:23 Okay, it just seems to be so versatile.
0:26 Now obviously, even if you compare it to the millets around it, it doesn't have the top end yield potential.
0:34 Fairly early maturing. It is used a lot in the wildlife industry, you know, doves a lot of...
0:41 Upland game birds really like the seed. But what I like about brown top millet is that it is just.
0:55 Mixes. This is one of the very first plants that animals will go and eat it. Just seems to keep its quality even.
1:04 After it heads out, animals still really like this plant, and that's a little different because some of these other.
1:09 Millets lose their forage quality and forage value after they mature.
1:15 Freeze out so this is by far the best millet for a stockpile mix. Yeah, I would agree and that's I put it and I try to put it in every winter stockpile every mix of summer annuals for winter stockpile grazing. I like to put in brown top and you can see it's kind of lodging here a little bit. So again, that's why we wouldn't want to see it necessarily by itself, but when this is in a mix and with some taller plants it's not going to go down like this. Yeah, it's a great understory plant for winter stockpile grazing.