I find that cereal grains have the energy to push thru matted down thatch, but smaller seeds don't. My thatch is little thicker this year, than I wanted. I'll adjust it during the summer by killing the grass early on. It'll come back by planting time.
That’s the conundrum with the fields becoming more fertile….heavier biomass crops to deal with. I hate to suppress the amount of biomass grown because the more we grow the more we’re adding back to the soil….and therefore the more humus we build. A lot of the tweaks I’ve been trying to make over the last few years is how to still make it work while growing the heavy biomass crops. That’s what has me getting away from mowing. Its too cumbersome in heavy biomass and it smothers out the soil surface too much. Balancing grass % will definitely help.
