Yes sow heavy and if you have a way to spray glysophate...spray it...then the standing grass will brown and lay down on its own and mat over your seed as a mulch...especially following a good rain....if you dont spray....then sow heavy then mow low...but without spraying you will likely have more competition from grass and weeds...but you'll still have a green fall plot....and when you get your seed...remember not rye grass....but cereal rye....and again winter wheat and crimson clover with the cereal rye will make a nice fall blend.
Spot on. Yeah, 1/2-3/4 acre, I'd spread 100 lbs cereal rye, 50 lbs wheat and 10-15 lbs of crimson clover. That's excessive, even for broadcasting, but should do the trick.
If you know a rain is coming for sure, you could spray a few days before….and right before the rain, broadcast the seed. Then wait less than a week and drag a log to lay everything down. Hopefully the stuff you sprayed will start to die by then and will lay over (like a mat) and your newly planted stuff is just popping out of the soil. The timing for that process is crucial.
"Dragging a log" is basically a chain pulling a log parallel with your tractor/4-wheeler Where it's just smoothing things out. Don't get excited about the word "drag" Jon…this is just farming, not pride BS