The cereal rye is fully mature now and should start turning brown really soon. A lot of good grain heads in the field that will likely be eaten by the deer once dried. Hopefully some will find its way down into my thatch and come back this fall as volunteer rye. There’s also a lot of good standing biomass to return back to the soil. Going to let it brown up and then toward the end of this month I will likely mow it down. There is no need in having your fields either tilled up or burned down with chemicals during the spring when you can keep providing food all the way through May.