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Best Time to Plant Michigan Wheat

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Fergienewbee

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I put in some cow peas with the intention of discing them under to pant a spring food plot consisting of wheat, crimson and medium red clover and Austrian winter peas. Right now it is getting a lot of crabgrass and carpet weed so I'll spray with round up a couple of weeks before discing. I'm thinking around August first with a mid-August planting date. I'll keep close watch of the crabgrass going to seed; that will be the guide. Does that sound about right in SW Michigan?

Larry
 
If you were to plant wheat in Michigan to harvest, you wait for the fly-free date,( Hessian fly ), which is usually around September 20th. But for a food plot, it doesn't really matter, as long as it gets lots of rain, which we usually don't get in August here in Michigan. Confused? Welcome to my world.
 
Don't know your exact location, but I figure on around Oct. 1 for me in South Central Michigan. Some research shows until Nov. 1 is ok, but I've never planted that late. Of course, this is for a grain crop, don't know about food plots.
 
Food plot would matter as it would give the fly a good place to live and take over the wheat sown for grain. Have seen in Ohio plenty of wheat being sown as the ground was starting to freeze up untill the drill could no longer get the seed in the ground and you never seen a stalk of wheat untill after the snow was gone in the spring and it produced as good as the wheat planted on the flysafe date. Don't try to plant wheat early and dammage your neighbor.
 
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