Does any one know if winter wheat has to be tilled in or can it be just planted on top of the ground?

I know of some who plant winter wheat after harvesting a different small grain in the fall. If they had good weed control on therecently harvested fieldthey quite oftenwill plant using no-till equipmentwithout anytilling. Working the soil can bring up new weed seeds.

If you just broadcast on top there is a lot of waste. A simple home built drag helps a lot. Just enough to cover the seed. This way the seed doesn't get eaten and it has a better chance of germinating. A drag can just be a section of chain link fence or some landscape timbers bolted together.
Blessings

It is far better if you can cover it with a little bit of soil. You will get better germination rates, and not as much of it will get eaten. Birds will go to town on exposed wheat seeds.

Like Bugflipper said. I broadcast a mix of wheat, white clover, and turnip in september and used 1 4ft piece of an old harrow behind the atv and it worked great.

Thanks that is what I needed to know.