Millet Seeds For Food Plots

Millet Varieties For Wildlife Food Plots

• Browntop Millet 

  Brown Top Millet

  Panicum ramosum

  Originated in South East Asia. Brown Top is an annual growing 2-5 feet tall. Used for hay production, wildlife applications and as a summer grazing crop. It is also used in Southern locations as a "nurse crop" for erosion control during the establishment phase of slower growing perennial grasses (along highway banks / turf slope areas.)  Its abundance of seed production makes it very attractive to dove and quail.  When planted with corn or alone and then flooded after it matures in the fall, it is one of the best choices in a food supply for wild ducks available. Less productive than Sudangrass, hybrid millets and cattail, but is firmer stemmed and less rank in growth.  Will usually volunteer or reseed itself easily on fields flooded in fall for duck hunting.

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  BROWN TOP MILLET

• Dove Proso Millet

  Dove Proso Millet

  Panicum miliaceum

  Dove Proso was introduced into the US by the USDA from Almora India around 1961. This selection was evaluated and production expanded because of its good performance. Dove Proso millet grows 3-6 feet in height and looks similar to oat at the top of the plant. The seed do NOT mature uniformly at one time but gradually throughout late summer and fall (on spring plantings). This provides a greater source of fresh feed (seeds) for wildlife and birds.  Seeds have a shiny seed coat and do not mold or mildew easily, thus retaining attraction for birds.  Must be planted each year as it does not volunteer very well.  Adapted to entire SE states. Matures in about 75 days after emergence. Uses: Hay, forage, grazing, wildlife. Tremendous attractant for quail, dove and pigeons.

• German Foxtail Millet

  German Foxtail Millet

  Setaria italica

  Foxtail is an annual warm-season grass that grows to a height of 2-5 feet under cultivation. Has broad, flat leaves that grow 8 to 16 inches long, that taper to a sharp point.

  Cultivated in China as early as 2700 BC, Foxtail was introduced into the US in 1849 and is grown throughout the Great Plains region. German is an improved variety used for silage, pasture and green-chop. Produces an abundance of hay in 6-8 weeks.

• Japanese Millet (Ducks)


Japanese Millet

Echinochloa crusgalli var frumentacea


Also called Japanese Barnyard millet (aka: Billion-dollar grass).  Occasionally grown as a forage grass, mostly in Eastern USA from Florida to Maine. In other far east countries it is grown for feed or edible seeds. Probably originated from common weed "barnyard-grass". Is an annual that grows up to 2 feet in height. Used as feed for game birds in food plots or in pastures.

Does NOT produce good hay.

• White Proso Millet

White Proso Millet

Panicum milaceum L.

White Proso Millet is mainly grown in Colorado and Dakotas.  It has little importance in the South, and does not produce much seed in this area.  Produced primarily on large acreage Midwest acreage for use in bird feed mixtures (Millions of pounds) and for livestock feed.  The white and red varieties are leading types planted.

• Pearl Millet

Pearl Millet

Pennisetum glaucum

Pearl millet is the most widely grown type of millet.  Pearl millet is well adapted to drought and poor soil conditions.  This millet performs well in soils with high salinity or low pH. Much of the grain is currently used to feed birds, particularly poultry and gamebirds for recreational hunting, such as bobwhite quail, turkey, pheasant, and dove.

Pearl millet is also a good cover crop in that it conserves soil quality and suppresses nematodes and weeds. This millet is a high protein forage crop that is easily digested and is being used in the USA as a livestock food.

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