Millet and Sorghum Seed
Cover crops for game and forage cover. Boston Seeds are wholesale online seed suppliers for Private Individuals, Businesses and Farming Groups.
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White millet is a popular choice as it provides cover and a source of food. Particularly attractive to English and French partridges.
- Produces a plentiful supply of small seeds for birds
- Often sown in conjunction with maize or kale
- It is vigorous and will grow to a height of up to 90cm
- Thicker leaved and higher seed production than red millet
- Sowing rate: 5kg acre.
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Red Millet is best sown alongside other crops to provide a source of food which will help to keep birds in the covers.
- Will produce a plentiful supply of small seeds for birds
- Often sown in conjunction with maize or kale
- Red millet is earlier maturing than white millet
- Susceptible to frost
- Sowing rate: 5kg acre.
Japanese Reed Millet is a stronger and hardier member of the millet family when compared to Red and White Millet.
- Stronger plant than others of the millet family
- Improved winter hardiness
- Mix with white millet to provide an excellent cover and feed crop
- Sowing rate: 5kg per acre.
Short stemmed, sturdy, broad-leaved and has a substantial seed head. Its shorter growing habit is ideal for exposed sites.
- Average height 1 - 1.25m.
- Very good standing power due to short growth habit.
- Ideal cover providing a warm holding area for birds.
- Sowing rate 12kg per acre.
Giant Sorghum is a cross between Sorghum and Sudan Grass Hybrid. It can grow over two metres tall providing excellent cover.
- Produces warm and dense cover that can grow 2-3 metres tall.
- Deep roots help it to withstand drought conditions
- Works well as a windbreak protect more vulnerable crops
- Sorghum is useful for flushing as it encourages the birds to lift above the cover
- Sowing rate: 12kg per acre.
Intermediate Sorghum as the name suggests grows to a height between the Giant and Dwarf varieties.
- Grows to a height of around 1.5 metres.
- Useful as a windbreak around other game cover crops
- Tall cover provides birds with protection from overhead predators
- Similar to maize but does not produce a cob
- Sowing rate: 10kg per acre.
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