How to get a pasture to bare dirt?

[whitravis]

I have an acre of field grass. Its also lumpy and bumpy. I want to get rid of the grass and smooth the field with a box scraper. Kill the grass, run a disc over the field, then the scraper box, or??

Or kill the grass then turn it under with a two bottom plow?

33HP

 

[2manyrocks]

A lot of farmers would just turn it with a one bottom plow. Let it sit for the grass to die a bit and then disc it. I have reservations that 33hp will handle a two bottom plow.

 

[Stan B]

Herbicide and a rented PTO harley rake.

 

[scootr]

Rent it out as pasture to too many goats and watch the magic happen. lol

 

[CalG]

Rent it out as pasture to too many goats and watch the magic happen. lol

Pigs will do the job in half the time! ;-)

 

[two_bit_score]

Rent it out as pasture to too many goats and watch the magic happen. lol

Or horses.

 

[scootr]

Or horses.

I guess anything would work. So long as it's too many of em.
I think of horses as being too selective compared to goats.

 

[scootr]

I guess anything would work. So long as it's too many of em.
I think of horses as being too selective compared to goats.

At least mine were - Nothing but the best oats and hay for us Boss.

 

[CH4Ohio]

First step is to spray it with glyphosate or something similar and kill what's green. For only an acre, I get better results with a tiller and then a drag rather than trying to disc it. Plowing it just makes it much rougher and you need even more aggressive equipment to get it smoothed back out.

YMMV

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

An acre, I would just mow it short and run a tiller over it a few times. I've done that on my place with good results. Some around me don't have a tiller and just use a disc. That takes a lot longer, especially in the dry. Discs don't cut very well through roots.