EXCEED BMR PEARL MILLET
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Summary
- Brown Mid-Rib (BMR); higher digestibility, improved feed intake, more milk or meat
- Dwarfing gene increases leaf to stem ratio and standability
- Excellent drought tolerance
- Ideal for grazing cows and calves or finished steers and heifers
Best Use: Grazing, baleage.
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.
Plant Characteristics
Taxonomy
Zone
- Regional Growing Zone
- 1 - Northwest Coastal, 2 - California Coastal, 3 - Southern Mountain, 4 - Mountain, 5 - Midwest, 6 - Northeast Lakes, 7 - Great Lakes South, 8 - Appalacia, 9 - Southeast, 10 - South Florida, 11 - South Texas, 12 - Southwest
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zones
- 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Temperature Zone
- Warm, Cool, Transitional
Plant Characteristics
- Height
- 24" - 30"
- Leaf Color
- Green
- Growing Cycle
- Annual
- Sun Requirement
- Full Sun
- Traits
- BMR
Plant Information
- Planting Season
- Summer
- Plant Depth
- 0.5" - 1"
- Minimum Soil Temp for Germination
- 65° F
- Establishment
- Easy
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Subkingdom
- Tracheobionta
- Super Division
- Spermatophyta
- Division
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- LILIOPSIDA
- Subclass
- COMMELINIDAE
- Order
- CYPERALES
- Family
- POACEAE
- Genus
- PENNEISETUM
- Species
- Pennisetum glaucum
