Don wrote:

.... The reason I dont do this
is it will blow clippings on my driveway/sidewalk/mulch...


Clippings on the driveway/sidewalk will dry up and blow away. Clippings
in the mulch may be caught and not blow away, but they will turn brown
and blend in. Either way, it becomes a non-issue eventually.

Don't cut the grass too short: it will burn in the dry season. Longer
grass will withstand drought better. It also shades out weeds better.

Mulching mowers need to be used fairly frequently so that the clippings
are short and will fall into the grass. Longer clippings (more volume of
grass being cut) will clump up and leave clods of grass on the lawn.

If you have two acres, do you use it all? How about cutting a quarter or
half acre as a lawn and haying the rest? Then you only have to cut that
part twice a year.