sorghum
 

Have any of you tried sorghum as a food/shelter plot. I've read how it will be grazed late in the winter and will serve as a wintering food source as well as good bedding ground. It's supposed to be a good multiple species plot as well as the turkeys and pheasants and other birds are supposed to like it. Anyone have any experiences with it they would like to fill us all in on???

Grain sorghum (milo) makes a good food plot for turkeys, pheasants, quail and deer. OK farmers grow a lot of milo. Problem is that you have to plant a lot of it. Deer can eat up a one acre milo game plot in a few nights. The hogs here tear up milo game plots.

Planted acres of milo plots for several years; it did well when we had adequate rain. i still plant a little milo for the turkeys and quail but it is planted along with iron clay peas. The peas climb the milo stalks.

The deer never bedded in our milo plots.

I plant milo every year,you will want to do a soil test.The deer really hit it will it's green after it forms kernels and then again after it ripens,game birds also like it and yes I have had deer bed in mine,the weedyer the better as long as you get some yield