Remember to tell who ever does your analysis that you are planting Orchard. Think apple trees would need a lower ph than pasture..but then on the other hand the rushes will also like the lower ph
I haven't ploughed yet and probably won't on my rushy fields. They drop a lot of seed. A crofter local to me, who is just getting back into his croft in retirement, sprayed then ploughed and reseeded a few years ago. In the first year he had a bumper crop of silage but now the rushes are going ape with all the ground disturbance and coming back thick and fast.
In our rushy fields, which I am.trying to bring back to better pasture, I plan to cut them back and then use a weed wiper (once or at most twice - primarily organic here) on the regrowth before grazing, overseeding and then immedietly grazing again (sheep) that and drainage.
If anybody is reading and wants for share them, I would be interested to hear any comments/experiences re this plan to get a relatively dry, but very rushy field back into good shape...