Converting farmland into pasture???

Use bout 12 to 16 lbs of Japanese Millet per acre, 1/2 bu of oats and 1/2 bu of wheat as your cover crop.

Also mix in some red and alsike and white clover, for sure add some grazing ( rizhomous ) alfalfa.

Add brome, Russian wild rye, big and little bluestem, Indian grass, some prairie wild flowers.

add some western wheatgrass and perhaps intermediate wheat grass.

add a decent shot of orchard grass.

Welter Seed and Honey , Cascade Iowa is likely your best seed source.

www.welterseed.com

also Albert Lea Seedhouse at Albert Lea Minnesota is a decent source at times.

All seed counts per pound are on the Internet. And w 43560 squ ft per acre.

Do some math, build yourself a nice Mixture....just mix w a scoop shovel in a metal water tank works, btw.

The Key to a good stand is Seed to Soil Contact....And shallow shallow planted grass and legumes.

say just use a fertilizer spreader to broadcast your seeds,

you should be able to get 1 at the local coop w gas engine on it....pull it w a 4 wheel drive pickup perhaps.

Or just buy a broadcast seeder that fits right on the rear of your pickup....those are cheap new and usefull forever.

Once seeds are broadcasted on just disc lightly....very lightly and a single disc pulls behind a pickup just fine.   Then drag it in.  Say drag 2 to 4 times.

btw w a Heavy drag you won't need to disc lightly.

Do it right and seed runs bout $30 per acre.

Your Income by haying the Japanese Millet will run bout $50 per ton Net, at say 10 to 15 tons per acre.