milo harvest

I live in corn/soybean producing area but want to try milo. Can I harvest milo with a flex bean head .
My head can be made rigid like a straight cut head if that helps.

Better find a market for it.

Where are you located?
Here in the South, milo took a big hit from the sugarcane aphid and it is moving north very fast.
It wiped out some fields around here.
Wiped out a lot of forage sorghum also.
Richard in NW SC

Yes. I usually tie the header up rigid to cut my milo (JD922 on a 9500). This year the milo is very tall so I am going to try it with it untied. I'm thinking the "hump" may help keep it in the header. I am also still doing beans and will stop and cut the milo when I have help available so that would make the switch easier.

I always keep some for feed but like was mentioned, find an elevator to take it. The two towns close to me are more than willing but if there is a large crop of corn or beans they sometimes don't have the room. Get trucks lined up - yields here can go 100 BPA and that means a lot of trucking! We don't have stellar ground, either. I'd imagine if you had rock star soil you could really get a yield. Put out the word. The protein on it is about what corn is so there may be folks that would buy a gravity wagon full from the field.

I grew up with it in the crop rotation. I have never considered it odd but I am one of just a couple that plant it in the area. It's a little tough to time it. You can't plant it too early or you have immature suckers throwing off your moisture count, and can't plant it too late or it isn't mature at frost.

I'm about 1/2 way through my milo harvest, using my JD 925 flex head. So far, the milo has been standing good and my loss from heads falling out of the header have been acceptable. So yes, you can get along with a flex head IF it is standing OK. My milo is starting to lean, so I'll put on the 653 row head on tomorrow. Due to our wet spring, my milo went in very late, July 2. Received only 10.41 inches total rain since planting, on some tough upland ground. Will make better than 80 bpa. I'm located 1/2 way between Wichita and Junction City, Kansas.

If you live halfway between Wichita and Junction City you must be somewhere in Marion County or close to it, correct? We're just a few miles northwest of Goessel.

My father-in-law has an 853 row head in the shed too as sort of an insurance policy for if the milo goes down. He usually uses a Gleaner 27-foot rigid head for milo but if it goes flat the row head is called into action. There's some really good looking milo around here this year and I believe more total acres than what we've seen recently.

I agree 100% with Richard G. I have custom cut probably 5000 acres here in central Ga over the past 10-15 years and NEVER had problems with the sugarcane aphids until last year.We saw minor cases last year but this year they have been devastating.I had about 700 acres to cut and will only probably cut half of it.Some fields were sprayed three times and it still did no good.You can cut it with a grain head as long as it is standing but if it goes down you are in trouble.I tried the grain head years ago and switched to the row crop head.One thing to think about is that with the grain table you are cutting EVERYTHING across the width of the head including grass or weeds but with the row crop head you are only cutting a 4" space right over each row.Green stem sorghum can be a load on a combine and the row crop head just helps keep the amount of material going through the machine to a minimum.

Sugarcane aphids were terrible in milo,sudan & Johnsongrass here last yr but for some reason weren't much of a problem this yr.

You are correct, Brendon. Just south of Antelope.

Glad to hear it was a better year for you on the milo crop we have not planted milo here for years say did you locate a oneway
for me