There might be better options for your location, those are for 'here'. Typically a warm season grass works for a one year crop, while cool season grasses take longer to grow, but make better multi- year hay or pasture grasses. So you are looking for a warm season small stemmed fast growing grass for your area.
Fertilizer, a 19-19-19 spread at 100-200 lbs per acre is an 'easy button' way to fertilize. You don't really know where you are at when you don't know your soil, but. Grass crop will remove about that much in a year so you are about feeding what you are trying to grow. Worksaver has an online PDF manual for those cone spreaders, 90% are all the same thing from Europe.... Best to set them at 1/2 rate and go oem direction, see if you used up about 1/2 of your fert, adjust your settings to match what is left, and then travel a different pattern to spread the second half, so you don't have skips and weak stripes in the field.
There might be different mixes of fert available, but close to 19% N (needed for grasses!), 19% P, and 19% K spread at 200 lbs per acre gives you a total of 38# of each product per acre for your grass crop to grow on. That plus whatever is in your soil will make a crop, and you won't be leaving any extra fert in the ground wasted on next year. A little sulfur wouldn't hurt, 10-15 lbs per acre, but that gets specialized....
Be careful the field wasn't in corn last year; a few good corn herbicides have long term carryover and will kill grass seedlings this spring yet.....
Broadleaf weeds are gonna be your enemy, don't spray too soon but a broadleaf weed killer once the stuff is growing will make you much more, and more valuable, hay. If no weed control, have to see what happens and see if you get more weeds or more hay in the first cutting.
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