Hi, we recently bought 24 acres in QLD (intro in New Members section), and have a fairly good history on the property. Unfortunately, the owners prior to us did not do any paddock maintenance as the owners previous to them had done. We now have four years worth of overgrown Rhodes grass and weeds to deal with. We have slashed the horse paddocks down but this has left a large amount of dead, dry and clumpy grass all over the place. I have also had to remove my horses from the paddock as the Rhodes grass has clumped and the stubble is like needles. It's cutting up the muzzles of the horses as they are grazing on the new fresh stuff. We are hoping for some advice on what we should do to re-start the paddock and to get rid of these big clumpy and sharp stubbles. Our currently train of thought is to flail or fine mulch the lot down to pretty much nothing and then see what grows back when / if we get rain. Is there anything else we should be doing such as plowing / re-seeding, etc? I believe there used to be a lot of horse friendly grasses in there but i'm just not sure what is stuck under all that stubble. Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers, Mick N Shaz