planning on baling the milo stalks off and grinding with hay. I put 100 pounds of N on this spring, pulled 115 bushel milo off the fields, but August was so hot and dry.....any chance of nitrate poisoning??? I think if it yeilded so high, it ought to not have any worries.... thoughts and advice ????
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balestabber
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i will agree with you. especially if you've had a good frost!i had a neighbor once who had about 120 acres put in milo,and was late harvesting.it was back in the eighties and i can still remember pheasant hunting in that milo with a light snow.he just turned the cows into it for clean-up after harvest.made a good winter pasture!
per
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It is not likely to be high as it made it to maturity. Also even if it was you will be blending it with other feed and you could do the math on an acceptable amount. Denny however nailed an easy and cheap way to find out. Now after all that my experience is not with Milo but with cereals like oats, wheat and barley. Good to hear one of your enterprises worked out for you this year. Nice to end the year on a positive note.
Down here I tend to worry more about prussic acid problems than nitrates, but then, we were extremely dry for a couple of years.
I spread 13-13-13 just last night on milo that we harvested last Tuesday. We got a toad strangler today.
I spread 13-13-13 just last night on milo that we harvested last Tuesday. We got a toad strangler today.
