Plant at the proper date. Your local Extension educator can provide information on winter wheat planting dates for your area. Control volunteer wheat and grassy weeds that emerge before harvest. The volunteer must be killed either with tillage or herbicides at least two weeks before fall planting. A community effort of controlling volunteer wheat in stubble fields and along roadsides will be beneficial in mosaic-prone areas.
Plant cultivars with greater tolerance to wheat streak mosaic.
Consult your seedsman or Extension educator about cultivar response to wheat streak mosaic virus. Take time in June to observe a wheat cultivar trial in your area. Practice good weed control in stubble fields following harvest and in farm program acres. Preventing establishment of grassy weeds in farm program acres reduces potential reservoirs of the curl mite and virus. Oats used as a companion crop in Conservation Reserve Program fields should be planted early enough to mature before fall-planted winter wheat emerges.