A field experiment to study the effect of sowing date and nitrogen level on growth and yield of summer forage pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) was conducted on loamy sand soil at the Agronomy Instructional Farm, C. P. College of Agriculture, SDAU, Sardarkrushinagar during summer season. The experiment comprising sixteen treatment combinations were laid out in Split Plot Design and replicated three times. The treatment consisted combinations of four different date of sowing viz. 1st March (D1), 15th March (D2), 1st April (D3) and 15th April (D4) and four nitrogen levels viz. 80 kg/ha (N1), 100 kg/ha (N2), 120 kg/ha (N3), 140 kg/ha (N4). The recommended dose of phosphorus @ 40 kg/ha was applied uniformly to all the treatment as basal. Highest growth, yield attributes and yield of summer pearl millet can be obtained by fertilizing the crop with 80 kg N/ha 50% at basal + 25% top dressing at 30 DAS + 25% top dressing at 45 DAS. The results revealed that the sowing of summer forage pearl millet crop on 15th March and fertilizing with 140 kg nitrogen per hectare and was followed by 120 kg nitrogen per hectare produced significantly higher growth parameters, green and dry forage yield, net realization and benefit: cost ratio.