For the longer term, plant a half acre or more of Durana Clover. If you properly manage it, a good Durana plot can last for years and years. It also can be overseeded with wheat if you put it out right before a rain is coming in Spetember to the end of October. That way you have a nice fall harvest plot in addition to year round very high quality protein feed.
When you plant the durana, there is absolutely no need to plow. It works much better to come in around early august and spray the plot with a heavy concentration of round up and kill all the weeds. Then come back about three weeks later and spray it one more time. Then about 2 to 3 weeks after that get a good hand spreader that will handle the tiny clover seeds and spread it in the standing dead plant matter. Right after you spread it, mow the plot as close as you can letting the mower clippings fall over the areas you seeded. It acts as a natural insulator to hold in the needed moisture to get the crop established. You can sow wheat in at the same time as the clover to give you an attractant for this season, because the clover will be tiny all fall and not really come on strong till the spring, then it will explode and be good for years. I would highly advise this planting method over tilling, you end up just losing all the moisture out of your soil when you till it. Plus half your good top soil blows away. You are also bringing weed seeds to the surface and you will have an awful time with weed competition.
Long term to manage the clover, spray it in the spring with Clethodim, which is a selective herbicide that will kill competing grasses (and the wheat) but not harm the clover at all. You will need to mix in some crop oil as a sticking agent for it to be most effective. If you get bad crab grass in the summer spray it with Clethodim again. I followed this exact plan to plant a plot in the field behind the house so we can watch the deer in the evenings. Most summer evenings I will have 5 to 15 deer in the little 1/4 acre plot I planted. That plot has held up for 5 years and is actually naturally spreading into the surrounding pasture.
