Exceed BMR Hybrid Pearl Millet

Untreated Seed
  • Brown Mid-Rib (BMR) for improved feed intake, higher digestibility, and more milk or meat
  • Dwarfing gene increases leaf to stem ratio and standability
  • Premium choice grazing cows and calves or finished steers and heifers. Often the highest palatability of all warm season forages in feeding trials.
  • Excellent drought tolerance and disease resistance
  • 60-65 days to maturity, 5-6 feet tall at heading

Management: Begin grazing Exceed BMR pearl millet at 24 – 30”. Can graze down to 6 inches if you then allow time for regrowth. Leaving 6” of stubble results in rapid recovery after cutting or grazing.
Planting Date: Mid-May – early July (soil 62°F+)
Seeding: ½”-1”deep. Drill @ 15-20 lbs./acre. Broadcast @ 25-30 lbs./acre.

$105.00 / 50lb Bag

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Millets are some of the oldest of cultivated crops harvested for food or feed. The crop is favored due to its productivity and short growing season under dry, high-temperature conditions.

Multi-Cut Species

  • Japanese Millet
  • Hybrid Pearl Millet
  • BMR Hybrid Pearl Millet

Single-Cut Species
Minimal regrowth that may be direct grazed.

  • Foxtail Millet
  • Proso Millet

 

Click here to learn more about Alternative Forage Crops. by Dr. Dan Undersander, Forage Agronomist at the University of Wisconsin.

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