Fencerow Flush Upland Bird Mix – Attracts Quail, Pheasant & Dove, Great Cover & Feed, Easy to Establish

Minimum: 500+ Seeds

Built for Cover and Feed Together

Upland birds need more than a single seed source, they need standing cover to feel safe and a genuine variety of feed to keep working a field. This blend combines a sorghum and millet grain base with protein-rich legumes, high-energy sunflower, and fast buckwheat to build both at once, tall standing structure and a diverse food supply that draws quail, pheasant, and dove together. It's a working upland habitat planting, not a single-crop food source dressed up as a bird mix.

Who Plants Upland Bird Seed Mix?
The upland hunter wanting a genuine attractant and holding cover for quail, pheasant, and dove.
The land manager building diverse habitat that combines standing cover with real feed value.
The wildlife habitat owner wanting a proven mix of grains, legumes, and seed crops together.

What This Sorghum & Millet Blend Actually Is
This mix combines a sorghum and millet grain base with protein-rich legumes, high-energy sunflower, and fast-growing buckwheat selected for upland bird cover and feed rather than a single-purpose planting. Components mature at different rates and heights, building layered cover alongside a varied food supply.

• Grain base: Grain Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), a heavy, reliable seed producer anchoring the blend.
• Millets: White Proso Millet (Panicum miliaceum), Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica), and Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum), staggering maturity for extended seed availability.
• Protein legumes: Hutcheson Soybeans (Glycine max 'Hutcheson') and Iron-Clay Cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata), adding protein, cover, and nitrogen fixation.
• High-energy seed crop: Peredovik Sunflower (Helianthus annuus 'Peredovik'), producing oil-rich seed heads favored by dove and other gamebirds.
• Fast cover crop: Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), quick-establishing and attractive to pollinators and insects birds forage on.

In the Food Plot

• Multi-species attraction: Plant to draw quail, pheasant, and dove to the same field with varied forage.
• Standing cover and feed: Combine tall grain and legume structure with open seed access for feeding birds.
• Extended feeding window: Rely on staggered millet and legume maturity to keep seed available longer.
• Insect forage support: Let buckwheat flower to draw insects that supplement young birds' diets.
• Field edge or block planting: Use along field borders or in dedicated blocks for concentrated bird activity.
• Standing winter cover: Leave plots standing into fall and winter for continued feed and shelter.

Growing Upland Bird Seed Mix

• Start method: Prepare a clean seedbed and broadcast or drill seed at a shallow depth.
• Timing: Plant in late spring to early summer, once soil has warmed and frost danger has passed.
• Seeding rate: Follow blend rates for full coverage; components are proportioned for a balanced stand.
• Sunlight: Full sun.
• Soil: Adaptable to a range of soils; fertile, well-drained ground supports the strongest stand.
• Watering: Relies mainly on natural rainfall once established.
• Growth habit: Mixed heights, from low buckwheat and legumes to tall grain and sunflower structure.
• Standing management: Leave plots standing through fall and winter rather than mowing for full access.
• Hardiness: Grown as a warm-season annual blend; not frost-hardy.

Before You Close This Page
This is an upland planting built to deliver cover and feed together, not one without the other. Upland Bird Seed Mix combines a sorghum and millet base with soybeans, cowpeas, sunflower, and buckwheat to give quail, pheasant, and dove real reason to work the same ground. It's easy to establish and built around how upland birds actually use a field. Grow the mix built for the birds that need both shelter and a reason to stay.