Broadcast seeding wheat in wet soil conditions

As the wet spring continues in Manitoba, growers are looking for ways to get their crops planted as fast as possible.
RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson has been getting plenty of questions on whether broadcast seeding wheat is an alternative for growers as the calendar turns toward June. In this video, he says broadcasting wheat seed is an option and is done in other parts of the world, but notes it is different than broadcasting canola, which is more common in Western Canada.
For starters, wheat, barley, oat, triticale and rye have a different root system than canola or soybean. "With canola, the root goes down and that's the main root system," notes Johnson. "With wheat, that initial root goes down but we don't get the main root system until we get three leaves."
Canola and flax work best because they hardly need to be buried, although they do require regular rain after seeding. "If you can manage at all, run over the broadcast wheat with some form of tillage," say Johnson. "We would really like to get that seed buried a little bit so have seed-to-soil contact."
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[@robertpayne2717]

There were two brothers over at home that had relatively good success flying on wheat into soybeans just prior to leaf drop in the early 70's, but, My dad and I would disk, harrow, and drill after soybean harvest....

[@marchoule3564]

Does wheat seed float or sink 🤔

[@geraldpodaima4465]

Jeez, thats must have been quite the left hook. you really don't have to be that defensive about wheat, Pete! LOL!