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You’re gonna mow it after everything bolts but before it goes to seed. Since you’re mowing before it sets seed, then your clover and most of the cereal grains will just bounce back. It might not get quite as tall as what it would have originally but it’ll still put out some good growth and produce a seed crop assuming your soil is productive. If you mow around the end of March or first of April then that’ll buy you a few weeks to turkey hunt your more low cut open fields. You may even release a bunch of insects when you mow...that'd be like ringing the dinner bell. I like the idea of letting them grow up toward the end of the season though and produce seed heads. I’ve got one heck of a rye, wheat, and oat seed crop out here that’s about to dry out. I imagine that a field of drying cereal grains would be just right to hide and feed some young turkey poults in another few weeks. Most of my cereal grains are just now beginning to turn brown.