No need to moldboard. Where do you live? Here in northwest Iowa the routine way is to take the first cutting around the first of June or maybe after the first week in June, then spray with Roundup and no till. The grass needs to grow back a bit before you spray the Roundup so that gets you a week later in June. Your 7000 should no till into the sod OK. Does your planter have two down pressure springs per row or four? Two springs will probably do the job unless the ground is real hard.
One drawback to doing it this way is the possibility of the rain shutting off in May and you cant get the seed into moisture. I got caught that way once when I baled the first cutting and planted no-till. The rain quit, the hay sucked all the moisture out of the soil and the beans ended up yielding five bushels per acre. There is a no till bean following hay field a few miles south of me that looks terrible this summer because the rain didn't fall after the hay was taken off.
If I was to do it again I would no till Roundup beans as soon as possible in the spring and spray the Roundup either right before planting or within a week after planting and forget the crop of hay. In the disaster I had I lost much more money on five bushel beans than I made on the hay. Why chance it?
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