Grazing wheat

[Kell-inKY]

Planted some late wheat last fall on a few acres, it was dry as a bone until winter and hardly anything came up, the local farmers planted earlier and although it did better it still looked way behind. Have a nice but short green stand now that spring is here.

When do I graze this? This field will have crabgrass, and I do not want to interfere with that at all as that was my main forage during the summer last year.

Let it head out?, put them on it sooner?

 

[callmefence]

Central Texas, graze it now.

 

[Banjo]

Any soil disturbance that the cattle may do now will only help your crabgrass germination.

 

[Bigfoot]

I turned in on mine maybe 2 weeks ago. I like you, encourage the crabgrass. I don't want to shade it. I pulled them off Friday, and it's made a big jump just since then.

 

[Kell-inKY]

Went for a walk with the wife this evening, down the road I would say their drilled wheat looked 9" tall. My broadcast (& put in 2 weeks later) is only 6". I will let them in this weekend I guess, I still don't have good grass recovery even in my untouched since last fall fields, may have to put out 2 more bales of hay. We were really in a drought last fall and the grass suffered.

 

[NolanCountyAG]

Been grazing wheat since the first of January. One field I have turned anything out on is at least 24"-30" tall, I haven't decided if I'm gonna graze it or bale it yet. Wish it would have all grown like that.