Good game management. Proso makes a great birdfood for the wild, cage, or backyard feeder. Keep in mind when left standing proso will shatter. Top two seeds in every panicle will drop before the rest of the head is mature--don't worry. Turkey and doves will pick seed from ground or seedhead. A special variety of proso was developed in Florida called "Dove" for your exact purpose.

Proso millet can be broadcast without tillage in standing stubble or over a tilled field. Broadcasting is usually done when a field is too wet to enter with a planter. Short season proso is an excellent alternative afted crop failure due to flooding, delayed planting, late frost, or when a planned crop is hailed. Lacking a planter, if field is dry proso can be broadcast by ground or air, but I recommend to lightly harrow which will cover some seed. Proso has an amazing ability to fill in empty spots around each seedling by tillering and branching. Rains, even late summer, will create more seed heads to emerge (but potentially delay harvest by extending maturity). I have counted 70 heads from one proso seed planted when it had plenty of moisture, fertility, and space.

I suggest that you seek out local varieties that fit your maturity, or select proso millet seed from importers into Pakistan. Please remember proso is photo-period sensitive and must be planted at appropriate times based on hours of sunlight.

Proso millet is mainly grown in the very dry semi-arid western U.S. Plains. As a result, proso yields vary greatly due to inconsistent moisture. In the last three years (2021, 2022, 2023) U.S. average yield is 1,419 pounds per acre (1266 kg/ha) with the low multi-state average of 1042 pounds/acre (1168 kg/ha), and the high in 2023 at 1915 pounds/acre (2146 kg/ha).

Rounding to the nearest tenth, one American Standard inch is 2.5 centimeters or 2.54 if measured to the hundredth.

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Referring to "small" harvester can mean many things. An acre harvested per hour is small for some in most of the U.S. Stationary rice harvesters used in southeast Asia are large pieces of equipment for those harvesting millet by hand. Lacking a combine, it may be far more economical to have someone with equipment to custom harvest for you.

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I am not too familiar with brown top millet, but I think it may be better around wet areas than proso. I assume you have planted brown top millet for game birds then after your game bird harvest you "...mow and burn the field." Yes, that should work for proso. However, as I mentioned in a previous comment, proso is photo-period sensitive. Southern latitudes with shorter summer days (than in more northern summers--above of 40 degrees N) may result in shorter proso. If you want food plots with a stand over three-feet tall, you probably do not want proso south of 40th parallel. Proso is excellent for food plots for game birds, like pheasants. I don't know a bird that doesn't like proso. White proso seed is preferred. Proso will tiller profusely when planted thin, but 25-pounds/acre when planted by itself is certainly a high enough seeding rate.

@@garywietgrefe2600 Thanks for the information! We do plant brown top for the wet areas but had concern on the heat/fire of proso. Excited to see how it does. We are in SE North Carolina so we will be in a warmer climate. I appreciate it!

Yes, that video was filmed in Hughes and Sully Counties South Dakota. Although it is sometimes possible to straight combined with uniform drying, usually pre-maturity rains generate secondary heads requiring swathing.

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