Grain Drill Setting for Milo or Hay Grazer???

[Kelly in tx]

Help, please . . . I'm trying to plant some "hay grazer" (sorghum-sudangrass hybrid) with my old grain drill. The seed looks like bb's./milo/grain sorghum. My grain drill has no setting with this name. The drill is a John Deere Model B 12 x 7. The "notches" read 0 to 60.
I want to plant at a rate of about 50 pounds per Acre. Setting of about 8 or other, better setting??? Thanks for the advice. kelly

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Help, please . . . I'm trying to plant some "hay grazer" (sorghum-sudangrass hybrid) with my old grain drill. The seed looks like bb's./milo/grain sorghum. My grain drill has no setting with this name. The drill is a John Deere Model B 12 x 7. The "notches" read 0 to 60.
I want to plant at a rate of about 50 pounds per Acre. Setting of about 8 or other, better setting??? Thanks for the advice. kelly

Is the B the same as the FB, just without the fertilizer box? If so, the manual I attached below here, might help. The seed looks larger than I had thought, so maybe a hemp setting? If your drill still has one, of course.

Mike

 

[Roger in Iowa]

Help, please . . . I'm trying to plant some "hay grazer" (sorghum-sudangrass hybrid) with my old grain drill. The seed looks like bb's./milo/grain sorghum. My grain drill has no setting with this name. The drill is a John Deere Model B 12 x 7. The "notches" read 0 to 60.
I want to plant at a rate of about 50 pounds per Acre. Setting of about 8 or other, better setting??? Thanks for the advice. kelly

50 pounds per acre sounds high. Especially dry land farming (Kansas).
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[johnnmr]

That rate sounds really high, the milo we'd combine for grain dad would shoot for 5 pounds to the acre. It's been 20 years since I've drilled milo, it was really hard to pinch it closed tight enough.

 

[David from Kansas]

Help, please . . . I'm trying to plant some "hay grazer" (sorghum-sudangrass hybrid) with my old grain drill. The seed looks like bb's./milo/grain sorghum. My grain drill has no setting with this name. The drill is a John Deere Model B 12 x 7. The "notches" read 0 to 60.
I want to plant at a rate of about 50 pounds per Acre. Setting of about 8 or other, better setting??? Thanks for the advice. kelly

50 pounds would be about twice what we planted with a B series van brunt drill. Certainly not more than 30 pounds. But, it depends on how much rain you get, and the lighter seeding rates would produce a larger stalk with more height. Sometimes you might want a higher seeding rate to get more foliage with finer stalks, which is usually preferred for baling.

 

[trackrat]

near Dallas haygrazer planting rate tried to get 50# per acre plant it thick smaller stems

 

[farmersamm]

https://forums.yesterdaystractors.com/threads/update-grain-drill-setting.1777598/

Everything you need to know is in the linked thread. Always calibrate on row feet IMHO. You don't need charts.

 

[David from Kansas]

Kelly, let us know how it turns out. Photos would be nice.