BSK
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All my fall plots have wheat (and heavy). Yet all of the plots will be thick, knee-high foxtail by mid-summer. It chokes out everything. In the past, when we were not trying to grow a summer crop, no problem. Just kill it and mow it before fall planting. But now that I'm attempting summer crops, it's a major problem. Don't know what I'm going to try this summer. A few plots will have Eagle Beans, which can be sprayed. May just let the other plots go fallow. Or I may overseed with Arrowleaf and just let it go, as the Arrowleaf can grow as tall or taller than the foxtail. Or hit those Arrowleaf plots with Clethodim. Still thinking on it.This is why I run wheat in when supplimental planting or establishing clover. It will come early crowding out early grasses and weeds, it consumes excess nitrogen, reduces browse pressure on the clover then goes to seed and dies in time for me to mow in July and spray if needed later.
Of course, I'm in the unusual position of summer foods being very low on the priority list as few deer call my property home in summer (and we currently have a massive amount of natural summer browse). However, the fall plots are EVERYTHING, and we pour all of our resources into those.