Knowing what we know so far, we have taken the plunge and bought a machine that will hopefully prepare our ground better and provide more options for grazing/cutting. We bought an ex-hire flail collector which is often used in parks and golf courses to cut large areas of grass, collect the cuttings in a big collector box and then tip the cuttings into a trailer to take away. It also has scarifying blades which hang beneath the flails and if the mower height is set low enough will scarify the ground, ripping out the rye grass to leave a good amount of bare soil for newly sown seed to make contact with. We used this to sow another 3 acres with Emorsgate 2 seed this month.