Duck Hunting Food Plot Japanese Millet

we're going to food plot and there's not many flooded millet japanese millet plops out online or things to view there's one really good one by Mossberg which tells you you know the equipment to use to contact the farmers and all that really good information so check that out online by Mossberg but we're at a little duck hole here it's about four or five acres it's a real good friend of mine and we're gonna they've already got it sprayed which we'll try to put that video up also so they sprayed it and they burned it as it was really thick and now we've brought the tractor we're gonna disc it over turn it over and we're gonna broadcast spread japanese millet and right now this is missouri about central missouri it is middle of june right in the middle of june so mill it takes about some say sixty days but it's more like 90 days to germinate so you want to try to get it in at least through before the end of july preferably some people can put it in before you know the beginning of august but we're trying to catch early this year so we're gonna disc all this we're gonna go different directions we're gonna go one bite and then we'll come back at a 45 degree angle and just keep disking it over and turn it over and see how well it does so we're kind of learning here too we're not farmers by any means we're just crazy duck hunters like the rest of everybody and love to shoot ducks oh and hang out with our friends but we're gonna try to get food in here this year to make the hunting a little bit better we will see hopefully all right so we're gonna disc it i've had trouble with this disc not digging in so we put a bunch of weight on the top of it these are just railroad ties and some old scrap beams that I found so hopefully it digs in but if you don't have your own tractor or disk you can always just go rent them this disk here is like a I think a 6-footer maybe seven and I just bought it on Craigslist cheap you don't have to go spending $3,000 on a fancy disk I probably only spent $400 on that disk and it should last a long time it was built to last so and just rent yourself a tractor but if you're gonna do it do it right you can use an ATV and a small disc but if you're gonna do four or five acres like this property you don't want to drive around the four-wheeler in a disc you'd be out here for days but if they do work the ground is just about perfect it's dry it's got a little bit of moisture in it but it should disk up well so we're gonna we're gonna turn it over and then we're gonna with the disc and then we're gonna broadcast it and then we're going to get the Coulter Packer I'll show you guys that here in a little bit and we're going to run over the seed with the Colt tobacker and just kind of set it in a little bit and Sal what kind of spray did you use so they sprayed it with two for D and glide what's like phosphate and then which killed it good and then they torched it all with a couple weeks later burned it it's ready to go [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right we got the tilling done so the ground is pretty moist in some of these are about the size of footballs so that's not ideal but if you wanted to run a hair over it after a week or two and it dry out it'd probably break up nice and neat but we're just broadcasting millet this is Japanese millet here it's fairly fine not as fine as grass seed but a little bit bigger and we learned our lesson on the spreader so we're just using hand spreaders and kind of just flinging it out because you can throw it wider than this thing turns like that if you have a spreader a toe behind spreader make sure you have a wide base but you can't use it when the claws are this big because if you can tip over and it's not getting a nice spread so either get a spreader that's on a four-wheeler that's raised I can shoot out or a spreader that's on the back of a PTO tractor that can shoot out but you'd be careful to burn through all your seed too fast what was it rate again 15 to 20 pounds per acre and we're doing four to five acres so and then we're gonna coal to pack this down and for time constraints it's just going to be the way it is on the big claws but it'll be fine because the rains will break it down and [Music] [Applause] like just enough to cover the Japanese millet we've covered or fuss it down about half I don't need to cover a beat men brand-new I bought this one Franklin's for $200 don't have to buy these playing in by the open [Applause] run over it over time hopefully break the pause a little bit Harrow [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay this is another duck hole this is our families again we're in kind of West Central Missouri and this is japanese millet also and i basically this lake was full all the way up to the blind they're just about three weeks ago and I've gradually got it all pumped out we can't drain this length the lake because it's it's so low but I just hand spread this on top of the mud flats and look how nice its come in its japanese millet and it's only six days old that's six days of growth and you can kind of see i'm gonna leave a space open over here just in front of the blind where the decoy hole is but i still got a little bit of water to get out the lake kind of wraps around the corner there but it's coming in real nice and then this stuff is amazing I literally just hand spread it on the mud flats and I today I went around the corner there and spread a little bit on this mud flap so hopefully here in a week that'll start to come on but I just wanted to show you guys again this is another property with millet on it it looks like it's gonna be really good and it has not had a rain on it in six days that's just from the moisture in the mud it's probably you can see it I don't know how hard to tell it's probably two inches tall looking good pretty excited hopefully we can feed some ducks in here this year Thanks okay mill it update look at this place I'm so excited it is July 28th and this was planted on remember like July 2nd most of it and look how tall it is it is doing awesome it is my 26 days old again I just spread this on top of the mud no fertilizer this japanese millet just took off I'll walk out here sorry the videos not very good but look at this stuff it is over my knees it's not a very good picture of it it's gotta be two and a half feet tall the last time I was here was 2 inches tall we've had some timely rains which always helps there is something eating it I don't know what that's all about as you can see here some of its getting eaten down all sweet we think maybe grasshoppers or I don't know but it still looks great so most of this was all planted at one point time like I said July 2nd and oh about a couple weeks later I got in here much the water receded some more and I planted some other walk across here for you guys I'm close to seed not yet but it's gonna produce a ton of seed for the Ducks so this is a decoy hole here and you can see where I stopped seeding and this is just some natural we don't know what it is coming up but I need to get in here with a mower or spray it and just to kill it all the way down but it'll be well you know 2 feet underwater so there was no sense seen the decoy hole and it's probably 40 yards by 40 yards circle I didn't measure it but that's close to what it is I'll show you here this is a good example of the growth height again we're putting these all together for you guys cuz there's hardly no good videos out there on japanese millet so right here this is a great example this is still all milling this area is for 26 days this area here is probably only 18 days I'm just guessing two weeks are so behind so there's millet from here to here and then older millet come here to here so that's it'll catch it but I thought I could do just throw it on the mud because the water was up to here and then the water receded and I got this much more seeded and now we've got more mud flats showing because we're getting one of the water out of here so today we've seated my friend see it helped me see it all this again we're strolling up there by hand this little sliver of water will be gone hopefully in a week or two and the win head and seated all this so we're gonna end up with three or four stages of growth of millet but we're hoping to fill this area in because I'd rather not have any Ducks shortstop us there and lighting that on a north wind we want them to come out here in this hole I'm just super excited then the lake kind of goes around a corner there you can't see the other side but in total it's about six acres okay Millard update just a quick one this time look up all it is on Bennett funny it's August 5th again it was planted July 2nd most of it kind of like the other video the more water that receives way back over there somewhere we can seed so there's gonna be three or four different stages of it looking good hasn't seen it out yet but it's tall it's approaching three feet tall listen good yep okay I actually just pulled some of this and to show you guys the root system this is at a right there and that is only about three weeks old and that way you can kind of see I was trying to gentle on how much I pull the roots out so that's about three week old millet and the roots are probably four inches next to my hand here so that's pretty cool just after three weeks and it's pretty moist soil here and it's had a couple good rains on it so it is starting to dry out around here but it has had some rain there you go okay update for my friends place this is again down towards southwest Missouri and this is where we did all of the disking with the tractor broadcasts the millet seed and coal to packed it and look at this it is August 18th it is unreal again it's all japanese millet huge seed heads they mowed down a little hole there for the decoy hole in front of the blind just awesome walk out here this stuff is four feet tall in some places hard to tell look at the seed head but I pulled it is bigger than my hand so of course it's just you have to brown up but the seed heads are out and there are definitely millions of seed heads I think we did the math there's probably on a square foot almost 20 seed heads which put it this place is about 5 acres so that's around 4 million seed heads out here it's gonna feed a lot of ducks guys can you try japanese millet it's pretty dang easy no fertilizer on this place all right thanks all right millet update again we are back here this is the our family's property again where we just can spread this millet it is way taller the Bennett and it is August 25th I would say some of these heads for the tops of them 6 feet tall which I would have never guessed millet would get that tall now that's crazy healthy again that hasn't been fertilized but and then this was the stuff that's trying to catch up with it I don't know if it'll Hill because that is so thick and tall there's another blind over there with an opening but you can see compared to Bennett way taller he is I'm sure it'll lay down once we get a once we flood this in here very cool so all the heads are out some are bigger than others we're gonna try to maybe mow that area a little better now today if we can get in there with the tractor a mower hopefully it's not too wet so there's an opening for a decoy hole just cannot believe again this was just spread it on top of the mud wasn't worked in or anything all right thanks for watching this is on the other side of the lake that we don't run look how green and tall this mill it is it is looking good and now it's got water on it just the ends rolled laid down where it's brown I mean good shape and that's the South Lawn and the seat is floating that's all millet seed floating doesn't really sink which is good it looks good it's been a lot of work day before the season starts 2018 finally got the water all the way up the ends all right it's one of the last videos for the old japanese millet experiment it is around December 12th so we're a little more than halfway through our season and we've had some water issues we've got enough water in here to hunt but this is not full pool by any means so if you remember that's the from the beginning videos the milk that you can kind of see there all this here that's the newer stuff that was planted probably late summer so it's still shown and I mowed this hole with the tractor just so we could have a decoy hole and move eyes because when that vegetation or the millet is up in through the ice you cannot slide the sheets and we don't have a good ice eater so we have to slide the sheets the old-fashioned way but it really laid down remember this is the end of the lake here you can see I mean it's just down to nothing when it was three feet tall and green and nice but there's still millions of seeds just everywhere kind of see they're in the water they're just everywhere so I'll walk down here oh you guys a little bit they pretty much all dropped their seed heads by now and just all turn Brown place looks great we haven't had a great season for whatever reason not very many people in this area but I'm sure maybe they're getting in here at night hopefully even feeding a little bit and this water is only about a foot and half deep right now but that's all that millet that's the South lined and this is our other blind for reference from the other videos there's just a little bit left on this one not much but it just it's everywhere in the water there's a bunch right here you can see that so there's a few ducks right there flying but I think it went well it just some years are better than others I'm sure when it comes to the actual hunting part but is definitely better not having any food in here at all so hope you guys again hope the videos help you out and it was pretty easy to plant I mean literally just threw this on mud this was not the property where we use the tracker I just cast it on the mud and it grew like crazy alright guys ending video here to wrap up what we did for all the Japanese bill note videos I want to thank all of you guys for watching and I hope you enjoy you know what we filmed throughout the season all the steps of it growing we were just kind of learning as we went and we've learned a lot of things but I just wanted to review a few things here as we wrap up and talk to you guys about again we're in Missouri I would probably change the planting date if I do it here again this next season we planted in my friends place as you remember the videos around in June we did our famous place around July 2nd I would move those two about beginning the middle of August all the way for it enough for Missouri and all the states are going to be different depending on where you're watching this from but a lot of it learned to lay down and it broke down which it old plants normally do in the winter but as a season progressed which ours is the missouri season depend on what zone you're in is around beginning of November through the start of January for Doug's season most of it was already laid down so I liked it the look of it it that was standing a little bit taller and by doing that we're gonna back off the the beginning plant date so it's a little bit stronger and not breaking down too soon so that's what the one thing I would change the deer as far as the deer go I know some of you might be concerned with that and I was cuz we've had our duck hole is in the timber there's woods everywhere the deer I had a game camera I was I caught a ton of deer and they're eating the melody betting in it almost every night there was proof of them in there but at the end of the day they did eat some but it wasn't enough that it affected the entire project heard of the plan of the planting so I wouldn't worry about the deer eating and there's one else he does for the Ducks too to get at next thing is water one thing I've noticed with ours over the years it's always been a real muddy water and so our decoy lines most of them are clear monofilament lines like most more Texas rigs - some are black the black style when we plan all this milling in there the water was crazy clear and that's not the case normally it's really muddy so if you go to plant millet plan on the water being clear I mean it the water's only two to three feet deep but you can see all the way to the bottom and those black decoyed lines really showed up and looked completely unnatural now the clear ones they were fine from above but if you go to plant this it really clears up the water so watch out for that a next thing is we took some pictures on my buddy's place further in southwest Missouri remember we plan his a little bit earlier like I said when his laid down when it did these seeds actually fell off and onto the ground it rejuvinated itself and had a whole nother second growth which we were not planning on so that was pretty cool it didn't reach full maturity because it started growing way late almost early fall so I didn't have enough time before the first frost came but in executing germinates this plus stuff is amazing these little seeds will just grow on about anything any sort of bare dirt or mud it will grow and they don't have to be worked in at all but another thing was crazy cool and we'll show you this picture also is that some of these seed heads again you see how big they are when it laid down his place the seeds actually rejuvinated on top of the seed heads and started to grow as you can see in this picture it's pretty cool I've never seen anything like that hat before like with grass eat or anything so and it didn't get very tall it's just short but that was pretty neat to see again just want to thank you guys you know for for watching all these I want to give credit to my son Bennet he did a great job formatting all these videos and taking videos he did a really good job so I appreciate him and again we're just duck hunters we had a blast this season we didn't have the best season in the world which is fine we didn't have a lot of fun but you know as duck hunters it's not always just about the food there's weather that goes into play with that and everything else we really fought the water this year we had to pump water in the lake but then we have plenty of water over the millet and it looked really good but please don't you know like the videos and subscribe to the channel if you would that always helps and again we thank everybody and make comments if you want I'll try to get back to your comments the best I can and maybe I can learn from you guys and you can learn from me and we can all share what's going on so hope you enjoyed good luck next season [Music]

Channel: Bryan Cook

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Length: 30min 56sec (1856 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 01 2019