Dad and most of the neighbors showed oats and next years hay ground like Rusty Farmall said. We used an IH endgame seeders, we showed into old corn ground, would leave an un-disked row every 8-9 corn rows to drive the seeder wagon by. Then we'd disk the entire field again, then pull the peg tooth harrow over the field because it would either be hay ground or hog pasture, and get lots of traffic.
We needed some straw but didn't have that much storage room so we didn't clip the oat stubble, just raked up straw that had gone thru the combine. The oats were ripe when combined, they did not grow after being cut. Not sure if they would regrow if cut while green. Normally by fall we had a pretty good crop of hay started but didn't cut it till the following summer, typically in June.
Broadcast seeder is the way to show oats and hay. Our endgate seeder had separate hoppers for oats and grass seed, more consistent sowing rates for both. Plus you can cover lots of ground in a hurry. Working with the neighbor and Dad in the seeder wagon and me on the tractor pulling the wagon we could cover 80 acres in an easy day. We'd disk the ground ahead of time, neighbor would start disking in right behind the seeder wagon, I'd start disking as soon as we were done seeding. Endgate seeder covered about a 25 ft swath at 5 mph, so about 15 acres per hour.
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