Question on timing on mowing plots

[abatis]

Greetings, I finally have the right equipment (rotary cutter) to mow about 8 acres of grass and weeds for use this year as food plot and some pasture.Come spring it will be wet and messy for a while given the soil type. I never mowed the area down last fall and I am now wondering if there is anything wrong with mowing the surface grass/weeds stems down now while the snow is gone but the ground is still frozen? I am hoping this will make growth of existing grass for pasture easier as the property has been ignored for years. I also want to frost seed some legumes between now and the end of March. Thanks for any suggestions. Location is western Montana

 

[Hollow]

Greetings, I finally have the right equipment (rotary cutter) to mow about 8 acres of grass and weeds for use this year as food plot and some pasture.Come spring it will be wet and messy for a while given the soil type. I never mowed the area down last fall and I am now wondering if there is anything wrong with mowing the surface grass/weeds stems down now while the snow is gone but the ground is still frozen? I am hoping this will make growth of existing grass for pasture easier as the property has been ignored for years. I also want to frost seed some legumes between now and the end of March. Thanks for any suggestions. Location is western Montana

If the ground is frozen and there is no chance of rutting it up you should be good to go.

 

[Western]

If you can do it safely, burn it off.

 

[abatis]

Thanks for the replies. Ground was good to go yesterday and mowed about 8 acres with my new Landpride RC1860. Worked great on the Bobcat CT235. Thanks for the advice, now to get to the frost seeding.