I am having a guy come in that has a heavy disc that he uses in his rice fields. He is going to disc the entire pasture and laser level the ground before my pond is excavated. As the guys who are digging my pond dump the dirt, he is going to be spreading and leveling the new dirt. Once he is through, I should have a good seed bed with no grass at all over the 3.5 acres and around my pond. Starting from scratch like that should make the seeding much easier.