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Winter wheat?

jharrell

jharrell

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I am wanting to put in a small food plot and was wondering about winter wheat with some alfalfa thrown in with it. When would be the best time to plant considering I am down here in Southern Missouri?
 
I would plant the witer wheat or oats right now so you can have some green come late october. The alfalfa, I would seed it in the spring but the people to ask on that one would be ones that raise it for hay.
 
Headgear, I will be planting winter wheat/rye as a cover crop in my clover/alfalfa the last weekend in Aug. The biggest thing is moisture! If you are dry like I am I would wait until the last minute to make sure the seed has a chance. I also would definately roll it in to bring the moisture up! Good Luck! Later T$
 
I have some white tail clover that I was wanting to plant but thought it might be to dry and hot. The bag says to plant it in late March early april for my neck of the woods so I was going with the alfalfa. What do you guys think? I am always seeing deer in a field down here that someone plants wheat in every fall so I thought it might be a good starter with the other stuff coming up behind it.
 
Headgear, I would plant it this fall! A lot less weed competition! The planting map from the Whitetail Institute has southern Missouri from Aug.15 - Oct.15 You have plenty of time yet and you have the luxary of waiting for a rain before planting. Nothing beats hunting over a well placed clover plot. Young tender sprouts are a favorite in my neck of the woods. I always plant my legume plots in the fall for this reason with great success. I have around 8 acres in existing plots and will be putting in 5 more this fall. The best thing about establishing these plots in the fall is you get to see if you have a good stand going into the winter months which means you can frost seed the weak spots in the spring. This leaves more time to focus on grain plots in the spring which tend to take a lot of your time. Happy planting! T$
 
Headgear,
I am getting ready to plant a half acre plot with Imperial Clover. Wilson Scott with the Whitetail Institute has been giving me direction. I was told today that I needed to spread 1000lbs of lime to bring my ph up. (I was at 6.1 ph) I am then to disc it in well and then add my fertilizer (200lbs of 6-24-24)and 20lbs of winter wheat and lightly disc this, then cultipack. He stated to wait for at least a 1/2 inch rain and then wait until it can be walked on without mud sticking to your shoes. Then spread the clover and cultipack again. I'm in central Iowa so my dates differ from yours. Yours reads August 15th - October 15th. The rain is the key. Any less that 1/2 inch and the seed will germinate and then dry up. Again, I know little about this but Wilson Scott is very helpful. 1-800-688-3030, ask for him. Good Luck!
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