Grazing rye grain crop?

I've always been reluctant to sow "grass" as a green manure on our rented allotment garden.

But I've been given some grazing rye green manure seeds.

Can I grow this "ryegrass" as an edible grain crop?

I grow rye as an annual grain. A 13 foot long row yields 5 pounds, (a week's worth of food), and I can harvest, thresh, and clean it in an hour.

It self-seeds rambunctiously, but dies easily when cultivated.

It looks like 'grazing rye is secale cereale just like rye the grain crop (see https://www.cotswoldseeds.com/articles/718/sowing-and-growing-grazing-forage-rye) for example. It may be the variety you have won't be optimised for grain size but leaf growth, but ought to form heads just the same. According to wikipedia it can be annual or biennial (maybe dependent on sowing time?) You could probably sow it now or in the spring to crop next year. It ought to die after cropping, so not be a persistent weed unlike ryegrass (lolium perenne) which is a perennial grass. Even if it does seed around the only problem is that you won't be able to tell easily whether the grass is rye or a less useful grass.
I was very pleased with the harvest I got from the handful of seed or rye I was given this year, but those are from 'fulltopt'. Sown in spring they produced a nice crop in August for me. If you like I can probaby send you a few seeds to play with and compare to the grazing rye....

Thank you!

With our increasingly variable climate, diversifying seems wise.  I believe I still have a couple of weeks to sow this grazing rye seed as an overwintering crop,  I guess it might struggle if another hot, dry summer comes next year, but it's not long since we had a mild but very wet summer too!

It looks like rye is sown more densely for grain production than for green manure, and can inhibit germination of other plants up to six weeks after digging in.

If it does well for me maybe I could try a more valuable sowing of grain-optimised rye?

Ac Baker wrote:It looks like rye is sown more densely for grain production than for green manure, and can inhibit germination of other plants up to six weeks after digging in.

Might be useful for transplants then? Is it just seed germination that it may affect? Could be useful for keeping weed seedlings from courgettes and tomato plants.