Brown Top Millet 2 Acres

Browntop Millet is a rapidly maturing grass that performs well as a catch crop, cover, nurse crop or for erosion control.  Turkeys, pheasants, doves and ducks love the seeds. One under-utilized and not well-known benefit of Browntop is that it is one of the few species that can suppress root-knot nematodes and bioremediate lead and zinc in contaminated soils.

Product Weight

50 lbs

Coverage Area

2 acres

Plant in late spring or early summer.  In the Southeast, plant from mid-April thru August.  Plant in full sun when temperatures are above 62 degrees.  Soils should be light-textured and well drained with pH between 5 and 7.

Start with a clean, weed-free soil bed. Drill 20 lbs. per acre or broadcast 30 lbs. per acre 1/2 to 1 inch deep in slightly moist soil. Fertilize with 250 lbs. of 19-19-19 per acre.