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NC KS | Wheat can and will come up under a snow drift but it won't be fast. If weather treats you right, you can drill it in January and still have something to run the combine over. Winter wheat has to sprout and maybe get a shoot going. Then it has to have so many days of under 40 to veneralize it so it will put out a head. As long as it gets some secondary roots established, it can survive cold weather as well as the big stuff planted in September. It would be a rare year that this late planted wheat has any potential over 40-50.
I wouldn't put nay fertilizer on it now except for a good shot of starter. Wait on the nitrogen until you see what you have in the spring.
You might have noticed that this wheat planted in the last 2 weeks is taking 2 weeks to see it from the road. Really slow! If we would get some warmer weather it would speed up. | |
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Green about wehat production.
