What are you using to get the foodplot started? Some of us have seed drill and can use 60-80lbs. Some of use have some standing thatch or vegetation that we mow or kill with herbicide. The thatch acts like a protector and seedbed for moisture. Many are puting down 100-150lbs an acre.
ye is great, but the seeds are huge and can be foraged by birds and small game quickly before they get a chance to grow. Thatch hide it, bare dirt you need to stir it in to hide it from the very top.
I use spring harrows with an ATV to break ground on fresh foodplot areas. Otherwise established I throw and mow / roundup. I loosen up the soil, then put the teeth to a light 1 inch stir. Spread the grains and larger seeds and a 1/3 to 1/2 of my clover, then stir it up once. Then, I spread my small seeds. Sometimes I run a tire drag around, sometimes I just roll it in. I have a cultipacker, lawn roller, or for years I'd Air up my ATV tires from 4 up to 8-10 psi and keep driving until it's mostly tire tracks.
Like one or two mentioned, I do more than just the rye. Oats are more prefered than rye. I always put some oats in, so the deer focus on eating than and let the clover do it's thing. It also thickens up the food plot quicker in the fall. Come spring oats are mostly killed and the rye and clover takes up the space.
Clover, I like a mix. Used to like dutch white because it grew so well. But, some folks are noticing they have trouble with the clover shading out other no-till seeds, even rye. So, i am letting it live its life out in my plots without a heavy gly or 2,4D kill. Just not buying seed anymore for my general reseeding needs. Could see myself using it in a new plot area in the future possibly.
Medium red and ladino is what I use mostly. Medium red I consider an annual faster one, perfect for a nursing crop of slower growing ladino. If the plot is new, I use more medium red. Usualy 1 part medium red to 2 parts ladino. Used to be even red, ladino, dutch white. I buy forage feast clover blend wihich has a good bit of medium red and crimson clover in it too.
MY home plot naturally has english plantain in it, and it plays the role chickory does in other folks plots. Gets sweet after a few frosts, then they hammer it.
Plant your plot late summer. IF you planted it a bit on the early side, add some more rye in early september, like 30-40lbs/acre. The deer like the fresh stuff a bit better come hunting season.
In febuary or so, spread maybe 10lbs/acre of your clover the 1st year. Every winter after that if the plot is doing ok, you can go down to 6lbs/acre. Just broadcasting it. No need to roll it in or anything that itme of year.