Broadcast th' wheat on plowed grown. You are "Top-Sowing".....ALL LEGAL!! Don't bother to cover it......

Playing devils advocate it, check when the extension office says for fall planting dates. Top sowing I believe has a range of planting dates. Could be wrong but worth checking. I know the first season is good but not sure of the window. Could also use “ erosion control” as a reason to top sow as well but it has its own technical stipulations

This. I want to say it's September 15th. It has to be a regular farming practice. Top sowing wheat after the recommended planting date would not be a regular farming practice. That's the way it was explained to me anyways.

Edit: I just looked it up. It can be too sewn from August 1st to November 30th up to 200lbs per acre.

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The thing i see a lot that is bass akwards - eat lunch - get u out there at 1 -1:30 and u in a sweat box doing nothing for hours until they fly

The thought of a morning hunt don't sound bad

If i did a hunt and put one on in september - get there 3:30 - get on hunt spot and shoot birds - food afterward. That crap of sitting for hours with nothing flying is so not well thought out

To answer some of the questions, I was thinking more of a morning hunt. Yes "spots" will be marked and chosen at random draw. Seale is where I live, shoot would be more towards river, close to Ft. Mitchell area. EAST ALABAMA. Thinking shoot, eat, and if you want go shoot some more in afternoon then that is something we are looking at (need to see the college schedule for all us SEC fans!), it gets dark earlier that late in Nov, so more of a all day, if people wanted to do that.
Show up, sign the waivers, select spots, go kill some birds, eat some food, go back out and shoot some more...all that is if they are flying and coming in to feed.
If we are able, I will advertise here, marketplace, craigslist, GON.com forum. Put some field pics on it, the areas marked for spots, and try and get some vids of what it looks like with birds flying. Main thing is with deer season being in full swing, would want to get 20-30 people on the field so it is covered and we can keep them flying.
Plenty of roost trees in and around this area and a good pond is located about 1/3 mi from this field. Large high voltage powerline is 100yds from field as well. It looks like a good set up. Just need to get farmer on board and see what we can do.
It is a win/win i think, since once the wheat comes up his cows will have something to eat as well.
Anyone know what a barrel of wheat is going for? I used to pay $50 but has been a long time.

If it’s overcast or raining, getting there at 3:30 you are just going to run the birds out that are already feeding and they very well may not come back. Especially after the first shoot of the year.

I know you said September.

Even more so later in the year.

Better gauge the weather conditions, then set a time. Also watch the birds. Some fields do much better in afternoon versus morning. Some fields are better morning versus afternoon.

My advice would be to top sew “plant” sections of the field at a time. I would start this practice weeks in advance. At least 5 “sections” planted 5 days or so apart at the stated rate of legal application per acre.

Getting birds and keeping birds takes a lot of work.

I would not plow it all at once. I’d plow no more than 2 sections at a time. I’d pack the dirt somehow either by dragging it then letting it settle a couple days, or I’d run back and forth over it with a vehicle or a cultipacker. A front end loader bucket set on the ground and then ran in reverse makes a great flat bare landing strip to top sew wheat on….