Egyptian Wheat for Wildlife: Tall Cover and Late-Season Food

0:00 Another area where sorghums can be extremely beneficial is in wildlife management. They're good grain producers, very drought tolerant.

0:09 They'll probably produce more energy in starch per acre per inch of moisture than just about any other product and because of the extreme variability.

0:18 Between different sorghum hybrids you can pick and choose products that fit your purpose. As you see behind me here I have a grain sorghum wildlife grain feed.

0:31 And I've got Egyptian wheat which is not related to our grain wheat. It's a sorghum. Why they named it Egyptian wheat we'll never know, but this...

0:44 Is a very very tall product as you can see as a big seed head and these are both extremely valuable for wildlife but for completely different purposes this.

0:56 Is going to get tall and then after frost this is going to log and fall over and make a big tangled mess that is great cover and these feed heads when.

1:08 That breaks over, end up on the ground or close to it.

1:11 Where game birds can get it this short product will actually stand throughout.

1:31 Most food sources have already been used up. This will still remain available, and the green sorghum is a relatively inexpensive product because it's a good.

1:40 Seed producer Egyptian wheat because of its height and its lack of ability to stand very well is a low-speed yielder, so the cost on Egyptian wheat is higher.

1:50 But you don't need to put very much of it in. It's one of the tallest products that we have. I've actually had guys buy this just to make privacy.

1:59 Fences around different fields and things. Yeah, if you want something that will keep all the neighbors from scoping out your deer, put a strip of this around your place.