Your disking/plowing twice will kill the grass. The only area to use herbicide is the sunflower area. Using herbicide on brown top will not only stunt its growth but also kill your goat weed and what birdeye will come up with the millet.
I've called my friend who prepares the fields to give me the name and ratio of the herbicide he uses for the sunflowers.

Dual 21oz to an acre
Spartan 4 oz to an acre.
8lbs of prodovic sunflower seed per acre (broadcasted).

Brown top millet broadcasted 20lbs/acre.

Fertilizer 25-15-15 200lbs/acre

hope this helps....

Thanks man, you've been a big help!!!!

I'll post some pics of my progress....I'm pumped. We got lots of birds in the area already and I can kill a few just pass shooting, I'm hoping by planting I can invite people for some shoots and kill enough to make all this worth it.

holla if you need some help getting it ready?

Shouldn't be too bad but I'll give you a call if I need some help.

Been looking on the internet about different dove plots, but it looks Reefman knows his ****!!!

Thanks Chris, however I know very little. I just follow orders from the head guy of our dove club. He's now retired and devotes all his time to preparing dove plots. He really knows his *****! Big Time!

lol!!!!!!!!!! Well someone knows their ****!!!!

Anyone know what these seeds are or if they are worth anything? Got em all over.

Almost looks like a wild onion/garlic (Allium spp.) but can't see the leaves or the plant in that picture. If it smells like onions then thats it. My wife did tell me I was wrong on something yesterday, so....:)

Not sure what that is

Thanks for the pics, yep, I've seen those little boogers before. Didn't realize how good/bad they were.

Texasweed
 

You can't buy "Birdeye" seed. Birdeye is actually Texasweed or Mexicanweed. It grows naturally here in Southwest Louisiana when conditions are right. Birdeye is what doves would rather eat while they are in this area but they will eat other small grain if the conditions are right. I shot a good number of birds last year in a milo field but it was bush hogged down to the ground and easy for them to access.

check out this link http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/crops_...+palustris.htm

that's it!!!! Dove cacaine at it's finest! My wifes uncle is gonna let me know how the guy he knows grows it.

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I have access to about 1000 acres in Iota. Would anyone be interested in forming a Dove Club there and share in the work/cost to plant it up? Let me know and I'll see if my friend wants to go this route. It just sits there idle. There are some tree lines and a big pond in the back that borders the bayou.

I would be interested. Anyone else???

How far is Iota?

by eunice.... I would say about 45 min to hour from LC. give or take.

You ready to shoot some doves? Only 4 months for dove and teal!!!!

Pretty sure thats a Sisyrinchium (blue-eyed grass, but not techinally a grass, in the iris family), pretty flower, probably not much wildlife value, but its native! Several different species of it around SW La.

lol bro i am not gonna have much of a life come August.... school is gonna start for me and this sucka gonna be buried in the books. Who am i kidding??? YEAH i am ready bro. I hope my field will be ready for geese this year.... they have been farming crawfish soooo we got the water!

That's cool man, hit them books. I'll just bbq and shoot doves without you.

not gonna happen bro... good thing about hunting/fishing.... they are done in the morning soo it shouldnt affect me studying bc i dont do that anyways until late at night. :rolleyes:

man with the way you shoot it'll take you all day to kill a limit of doves! Lol!!!!!!!!!!!! Jk

you almost got nun chucked on that one bro! :work:

lol!!!!!!!!!!!! Man i just can't seem to get the fever to go fishing still to pumped up on killing feathered animals. Went crabing a couple of sundays ago at the duck lease and couldn't even function with all the teal flying around.

I don't plan on dove huntin in the mornings...gonna be an afternoon thing. I got babies at the house, I ain't gonna be popping off shots when the sun comes up.

me personally have never done good on doves in the morning. Now mid-late afternoon look out!

well that changes things. just give me the heads up and I will make arrangements.... if that S.O.B Chris Meche is invited I aint going!!! dcikgogetter. pahahahhaaha just kidding chris!

lol!!!!!!!!! Touche!!!

That's right. The reason I love to dove hunt is the cooking and drinking/hanging out afterwards.

well bro I can help with the hunting and cooking.... cant help u with the drinking unless you talking bout H2O. when we going fishing? i just got a side scan 798 hummingbird... cant wait to play in toledo with it!

I don't even need to hunt i'll cook and laugh at Eddies shooting skills! Well on second thought i'll bring my gun to help him out. Boom!!!!!!!!!! Lol!!

I'll have water for you. When's the Toledo trip?

dont know... talk to keith and get it set up. hopefully may 19th or so. the 12th might be hard to pull off. When are you off????

Weekend of the 12th and 19th are my two weekends off. 12th is most likely a no go for me.

call keith and tell him the 19th is the time to go. Chris wants to go also. me, u, keith, quin, chris.... sounds good to me.

I only know one Chris and there aint no way that guys gettin invited :rolleyes:;)

lol!!!!!! Let me know as soon as ya'll can on a date, and i'll see what i can do. I work on saturdays and we have to have any vacation request in 3 weeks in advance, but i'll sure try.

Well didn't end up planting but I got this growing like wild fire!!! This spot hasn't been cut in a couple months.

This spot was cut about 3 weeks ago.

I'm having dove dreams over that pic! DON'T cut that until a week before the season....In fact, don't cut it at all! Let those seeds start popping out. Those plants will produce until first frost. Dove do like a clean patch but will go into that without hesitation. At the end of Oct. bush hog it real good, windrow then burn the windrow.... Will attract another bunch of birds after you burn. You could possibly shoot through all three seasons if managed properly! Looks great...good luck!

By chance do you have any birds hanging around your field right now?????

Thanks for the additional info.

Doves stay pretty thick year round out here, I see quite a few when I'm outside.

I've noticed the last couple weeks that the bobwhite quail are thick out here too. I had to stop my truck in the road the other day to let a few cross.

Oh man that's awesome that you have some bobwhite. I love those little guys. Wish we had more around, cause I would love to hunt them, but the population just isn't there, or on any of the public land I hunt. lol. And reefman is right on with what he said. Dove will jump in that thick stuff in a heart beat. They love croton (pretty sure that's what that is). OOooooh, can't wait for the season, already gettin the itch (must.....not.....shoot.....birds on bird feeder....haha).

Yes, its woolly croton.

Is there even a quail season down here?

micah i better get a call....

x2!!! Somebodies got to kill his limit for him! Lol!!!!!

Yeah, very limited, think it opens up around the same time as woodcock. Just isn't as much habitat for them anymore. Very particular birds, being that they are ground dwellers, they have to have ground coverage but also room to run underneath that cover. That croton might provide them with the coverage they need. If you managed that in a particular way, if you were interested in quail, I bet you could have a bunch of birds.

And after I looked back at the pic I knew it was Wooly Croton.