thin spots in hay field

i plowed and disc and planted about 4 acres of a hay mixture of alfalfa clover and grasses with oats as a cover crop.the wind blew some of the oats over in a few little spots befoe i got them cut and kinda smothered everything out.if i broadcast some seed back in this spring could i expect much success
RICK

Rick, Where do you live. If it snows in your country and you can do it, wait tell the end of the snow season and throw your seed on top of the snow. Seems to work .

I don't see why it would not work, make sure to disturb,rake or work the soil a bit, so to get good seed contact, ought to fill back in with what you want. Spot patching is good practice in a small field or wherever feasible because those are where weeds or undesirable plants may start to grow. We have a small field, about 7 acres and I have often weeded it by hand, just to keep things from getting out of control. Might do the same as you did, oats will come up with just some soil contact, and adequate water, I've had a whole field come back in a wet summer, from what the combine left behind and what seemed to grow back, if not for the weather it could have been harvested again, much less yield, but surprisingly no weeds.

Same field has be in oats the last 3 years, and last year the oats did not come up as high, I think he omitted fertilizer when they sprayed 2-4D for weeds, so they did not shade out the soil enough and soon after they were ripe, a thick grass like weed took over. Was a hot dry summer too. When oats get too tall, they will eventually lean, and we had to put these guard extensions on the combine grain head, to pick em up, but the straw yield is much better, so is the shading of weeds.

just run over it with press drill and some seed,works real well for me.