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Would I be ok planting winter wheat in an area of high deer pressure if I left the field fallow from early July till mid or late October each year? Have a field in particular that has extreme deer pressure and its not even worth double cropping soybeans in it.

Thoughts?
 
Back when I planted wheat for grazing yearlings during Winter/Spring it was planted year after year for about 10 years. My friend has been continuously planting wheat for grazing for over 25 yrs.
 
My neighbor once bought a field here in central Kansas and he told me that it had been in continuous wheat for over 20 years. Lots of fields here go two or three years of wheat in a row with no obvious problems. Harvest in early summer, till or spray a few times to keep the field clean, then sow in Octobor. When doing continuous wheat it is very important that any volunteer is killed, especially as sowing time gets closer. Volunteer wheat provides a haven for insects and mites that can carry disease into the new crop. Around our area a person loses a lot of respect from his neighbors is he leaves his volunteer go unchecked.
 
More and more continuous cropping is occurring. Very little fallowing or crop rotation, except the corn growers almost consistently rotate from corn to beans to corn continuously. On my small acreage I try to not grow milo or wheat for more than 2 years continuously. Getting really hard to control the chemical resistant weeds without rotating crops.
 
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