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Farmers....what is this?

RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
edited July 2010 in General Discussion
This is planted in the State Game Lands food plots here in Pennsylvania.

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Here is a better picture of the top.

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  • jwb267jwb267 Member Posts: 19,666 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    foxtail General Characteristics
    Foxtail is a tufted, upright, annual grass with a shallow root system. Its seeds germinate from late spring to fall, growing quickly enough to shade flowers and vegetables. Able to reach heights of up to 5 feet, tough, clumpy foxtail weed sometimes is confused with crabgrass. Foxtail weed can be distinguished by its furry, bristled seed-heads. Its root system releases natural herbicides that can prevent nearby plants from flourishing.


    Growing General Characteristics
    Foxtail is a tufted, upright, annual grass with a shallow root system. Its seeds germinate from late spring to fall, growing quickly enough to shade flowers and vegetables. Able to reach heights of up to 5 feet, tough, clumpy foxtail weed sometimes is confused with crabgrass. Foxtail weed can be distinguished by its furry, bristled seed-heads. Its root system releases natural herbicides that can prevent nearby plants from flourishing.


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  • SturmgewehrSturmgewehr Member Posts: 4,420
    edited November -1
  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,278 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep foxtail. Bad news for dogs.
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Looks kinda like juvenile rye, to me....Are the plots primarily this???
  • texaswildmantexaswildman Member Posts: 2,215 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    looks like foxtail millet. different species of millets are used in food plots. great bird food....
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 53,466
    edited November -1
    Foxtail and goatheads out in the desert of California, theyt were a real pain.
  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes, these are actual food plots that have been planted in fields.
    Whatever it is, deer must eat it.
    The picture of the top is spot on.

    There are several plots of nothing but this and it didn't grow wild, it was planted.
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  • gumbydamnitgumbydamnit Member Posts: 793 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I logged for a living and would buy timber from the game commission, one of the main things to seed landings down and skid trails was perennial rye grass. Looks like that is what that is.
  • dbain99dbain99 Member Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Sturmgewehr
    A weed [;)]

    THAT
  • quickmajikquickmajik Member Posts: 16,324
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by RugerNiner
    This is planted in the State Game Lands food plots here in Pennsylvania.

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    Here is a better picture of the top.

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    Fox tail millet
  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Through research it seems like it might be foxtail millet.
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  • Lucky_LeftyLucky_Lefty Member Posts: 7,971
    edited November -1
    why no good for dogs?
  • soopsoop Member Posts: 4,633
    edited November -1
    Because it's foxtail and not dogtail?
  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Lucky_Lefty
    why no good for dogs?


    Gets in their eyes and noses.
  • moonshinemoonshine Member Posts: 8,471
    edited November -1
    quote:quote:
    Originally posted by Lucky_Lefty

    why no good for dogs?




    Gets in their eyes and noses.


    also in the ears and between the toes.and increase's vet bill's.
  • shootuadealshootuadeal Member Posts: 5,231 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Green Foxtail AKA: pigeongrass
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 53,466
    edited November -1
    Have thrown away many socks cause I went thru some and could not get them all out. Any Sweater or fleece garment just attracts them.
  • westernMDhunterwesternMDhunter Member Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    On state game lands in Maryland they plant corn, wheat and grasses with help from the National Wild Turkey Federation and Pheasants Forever. The food plots in Pennsylvania are most likely the same. They are planted for the turkeys, pheasants, and quail mainly. Deer may also browse on the foxtail but their primary purpose is for nesting birds and cover/protection for them.
  • reloader44magreloader44mag Member Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    they smoke that stuff around here[:)]...its Foxtail
  • 35 Whelen35 Whelen Member Posts: 14,310 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ah yes, Foxtail, my kryptonite.

    Sometimes it seems like if I even look at that stuff, I end up with lungs that won't function and eyelids that swell up so bad they split open. If I happen to walk by some of it, and it simply brushes against a leg, I might as well forget using that leg for a couple days.

    Unfortunately, that stuff seems to grow everywhere around here![:(!][V]
    An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
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