If your food plot is for deer it will work anytime during the spring or summer. if you are planting for doves it needs to mature and dry out before you cut it 2 weeks before theseason opens. most milo is a 60- 90 day crop. if you want it for upland birds plantat different times so some matures early and some latter
something that provides great cover and holds birds in your area is a mixture of sorgum and corn alot of the dairy farms do this and cut it for sillage.