So We Grew Millet......Now What?

We planted a small millet patch as an experiment end the end of July, now it's time to see if we can get it ready to be animal feed with some old hay equipment.
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[@jehsdca]

I love your Sunday lessons. What a difference you bring to people at home!

[@LouCoins]

Whoa! Thank You for that tip about hooking up implements using the front loader - neat trick that I promise I will be trying on my next hook up.

[@CaptainCocktale]

Millet also makes a good alternative to rice and pasta for people. We rotate it in our diet for variety with quinoa, amarinth, etc

[@SSLFamilyDad]

Maybe I'll have to grab some and try it!

[@bobbun9630]

This video brings back some old memories. About 40 years ago, I was a teenager living with my grandfather, and later father, on a hobby farm. The family had an old MF 135 tractor which was very similar to yours, and we had a very similar sickle bar mower. I can remember "helping" while my father bradded in new teeth on the mower. Occasionally we borrowed my great uncle's haybine, which was much better because it crimped the hay for faster drying. By the time I was old enough to be trusted to operate the equipment (~16 yo), we had upgraded to a rotary mower, which cut grass much faster, and was a lot easier to maintain since it had far fewer teeth and didn't hit every last rock in the field.

[@irenedavo3768]

Wow!

[@BillTheTractorMan]

Run a chain drag over that ground to smooth and work those seeds in. Next year you will have more grass in with the millet but it will still make decent feed if your animals like it.

[@Lytalm55]

I know a few people in my area that use oats as cattle feed instead of harvesting the grain. Generally you don't let the seeds fully develop before cutting and baling it (some people do it as the grain milks, we do it just before it does). This prevents losing part of your harvest falling on the ground. Although if you're planning to use the seeds for next year, what you did is a valid way of doing it!

[@GeminoSmothers]

What about for human consumption? I'd like to grow grains for 3 purposes. Humans, chickens, and re planting. We have some growing now, but the brown parts seem to be losing seeds. Not sure if I should harvest or wait.

[@edieboudreau9637]

Definitely reseeded. Lol. BTW sunflowers & pumpkins can be companion planted very well.

[@otis6791]

Dove magnet if u enjoy getting a couple of folks together for a fun shoot, and they are good to eat too.

[@brentchalmers1436]

I threw some millet into a bare piece of ground to provide a cover crop. The horses walked thru it all summer and never touched it. Immediately after the first frost the horses tied into it and that patch didn’t last a week. I totally underestimated the food value.

[@AlsHomestead]

Chickens love millet and it's very healthy for them so maybe yours would be great for your chickens.

[@lilsangarden]

My first time to see the cutter close up, nice info!

[@kiki29073]

Millet is a favorite of exotic birds, all types of Parrots, Cockatoos, and other types of Parrots. It's the base grain for their seed mix that used to be the main food for them but, today they have found that eating too much seeds causes fatty liver disease because they can't get enough exercise in captivity to burn off the fat from seeds. So, now it's best to feed them a bird chop that is a mixture of cooked and raw veggies, different grains and legumes with fruit on the side a couple times a week. Boiled eggs can be added to the chop also or just fed it to them separately. All of that aside though the spray millet is the favorite treat for most birds. It's what many people use to train them with. There are some birds that prefer something else as their favorite but, spray millet almost always helps in training. And, oddly enough, they prefer it still on the spray instead of the loose seeds. It's like crack to most birds for some reason.

[@lechatbotte.]

Millet often grown as a cheap filler in bagged bird seed. Maybe good for chickens! It’s not old school, they make better newer ones. As haybines it’s a matter of preference, pastures you are cutting etc. lots of rocks these are great, rotary is nice if you don’t have rocks and a level field.

[@sankethgowda5522]

It’s actually good for human way better then wheat and rice

[@eddiespain2410]

With that Cycle Bar Mower you take me back 67 years to the first time I drove a Tractor and the first time I drove anything with a Motor. The tractor was a 1910 Farmall and I learned to drive it that day as I cut 1000 x 500 yards of weeds at a local Rifle and Pistol Club Range.. I often wonder watching Videos by many Millennial Farmers why they do not adapt it instead of a drag behind mower which has no real versatility like a side drop... I remember easily getting around fence posts ditches etc. etc.... Thanks for sharing..

[@thaiexoticchannel]

Thanks for the good information

[@stanford2444]

Is that Proso millet? I would like to see the results of feeding it, I have been thinking of doing the same, but in round bales. You probably lose less with the sickle mower than I would with the haybine.

[@salmonhunter7414]

Have you looked into a quick hitch? I have one for my small tractor and it works great.

[@karnellhillscan2834]

You are missing the second clip on your bar.its the first low clip available at tractor supply. I have the same sickle bar mower

[@salmonhunter7414]

We use to grow oats and cut green but it takes a long time to dry,

[@aministratorgeneral.9298]

oohhh, not good at all storing the tractor by all the hay, as when you start it up carbon sparks come out the exhaust, and it will set it all alight,..and you dont want that..

[@lilsangarden]

I remember planting foxtail red and black millet from the seed I bought from petstore, they have grown but to my surprised not anywhere as big as their parent

[@aministratorgeneral.9298]

Three point linkage invented by Harry Ferguson, for the model T20 tractor brought out in the uk in the 50,s it brings the weight forward from any implaments that are on the back, for extra grip and stability,.

[@scottnunya1]

Ferguson patented the 3 point in 1926, built a few various development tractors with it, but it took hold when he convinced Ford to use it in mass production on the Ford 9N (1939)

[@davewaggoner5525]

Hey Todd, pour a little used motor oil on your sickle as it's running. It'll take that chatter out

[@SSLFamilyDad]

I normally do but since this was such a little spot I skipped that. it does work great though!

[@thekingtroll2]

I don't need anything on Amazon. You should create a "wishlist" so those that wanted to buy you something could. Or a paypal address so you could buy with it what you wanted or pay a bill. I've watched about 10 of your video's laying in bed with the flu today. I enjoyed each one.

[@user-hk4sb8wu9f]

was it a flu?

[@neildriedger637]

Love your videos lol

[@markenge9348]

When I was a boy we ended up with a three-legged dog from one of these. Dog continued to live for years.

[@fla-bushcraftprepper941]

Ground millet mixed in ground chuck makes nice meatloaf.

[@gloriayoung392]

It is Good Deed For Animals and Human s🙏☺️✌️

[@Owl4909]

I've run tractors all my life and u bucket trick I've never considered

[@nerdanderthalidontlikegoog7194]

I hope it works out for you.

[@ridingvenus]

6:12 where ya get your seed?

[@frrapp2366]

yes sickle mowers can be dangerous for pets and animals we had a momma cat the my dad hit with the mower she lost one whole foot and a couple of toes off another but we patched her up and she was still the best mouser i have ever seen 2 under her claws 1 in her mouth and wanting to go after the one s that got away!!!! something you might think about planting in the millet field is Mung beans they are a short term crop and will provide lots of protein they are also very drought tolerant. baling the millet will be a balancing act to get dry enough to keep but not to shatter out the millet seed . good luck is raining her in ok still trying to plant wheat

[@nicholasnapier2684]

A cheap bottle of corn oil in their spray bottle get all this place so it's non-toxic to your animals ...and lube up your blade...

[@nancymweasel6561]

I used to use & preferred a sickle bar. Mine was simpler than yours.

[@n5lul010]

Three point really looks sloppy and worn out. No zerks.... so no lube? How are you able to adjust other than fight it?

[@jimversluys7608]

Ha, ha...I read it as, So I grew a mullet, now what.

[@SSLFamilyDad]

Lol

[@curtisharlan9230]

Cool brother

[@jackbornhoftfarms3254]

We harvest millet with a swather and then pick it up with a pickup header on a combine

[@jaecubed592]

Close call on running over the camera. Lol

[@message___deleted]

Holy rickety machine.

[@LoveShackBBQ]

Do you think the deer would eat it after the cut? I’m not a farmer by any means, but just curious. Also, because I enjoy hunting, would there be an alternative crop you could plant to not only hunt over, but harvest for feed? Say like Radish? I wonder what the cost to grow a 1/4 acre of feed for your livestock, Versus “hunting plot” for Venison (meat in the freezer) would equate to. Just a thought.

[@SSLFamilyDad]

Radishes would be a good idea, and yes the deer are out there eating it all the time

[@LoveShackBBQ]

This is all new to me with Millet. Never heard or saw it. I’ve kinda farmed in the past. I worked on a farm during college, but that was Soy and Corn some Livestock and a lot of Hay. Whew! I would love to see your plans to Hunt and bring it to the table. Maybe an idea for a video this Fall? BTW, I’m a Michigan Man living in Florida- missing my home state and all things glorious to Michigan. God Bless! Love your channel here on YT!

[@friendlyfoodforest8033]

The deer eat everything! I don't hunt, but I hope my neighbors do.

[@mauso12012]

Of course the deer would eat it. Many hunters use it as a screen / staging area between their food plots and woodsy bedding areas. The deer mill around in it until they feel safe to get the food plot. It'll grow over 6ft high if planted early enough. Also a M man in FL getting ready to sell and move back to God's country. For more info on millet in food plots just search U tube. Plenty out there. Best food plot channel IMO is Jeff Sturgis with Whitetail Habitat Solutions

[@andrewlittlefield3425]

Cool

[@kingglizzer]

So that's what being your phone and run over by a tractor looks like. Owns tractor = real farmer.

[@dianebreton6945]

interesting

[@message___deleted]

Is Timothy hay?

[@greatmindbig9091]

Please, this looks like sorghum, if this is truly millet, what variety is this

[@FixItYerself]

feed?

[@rochrich1223]

I believe your weed is foxtail.

[@stanford2444]

Green Millet, fox tail is bushier

[@kellysaylors5845]

Shortest millet I’ve ever seen

[@thesmallgameslayers]

Awesome video. Just uploaded part 1 of my custom duck pond. Please stop by and watch

[@farmdude1008]

You should get a pto guard before someone gets hurt

[@Villivakkam]

Millet is a very good food for human beings too. Better than oat or wheat or rice.

[@thecynic807]

You could just build a temporary pin and put some goats out there. Rotate all of your goats for one day until they eat it instead of raking and bailing.

[@kiranjtmk6500]

That is not look like a millet. Not good