Winter small grains, like wheat, sown after mid-August, will provide only a small amount of fall grazing. As long as the fall grazing does not uproot plants nor trample them to death (more likely in wet soils), there will be little effect on grain yields the next summer. Even oats or annual ryegrass sown this late will have relatively little fall grazing due to reduced hours of sunlight, declining temperatures, and eventual freezing. Fall-grazed small grains need to be sown by early August for much grazable fall growth.

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