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Burn baby, burn?

A neighbor and I have about 14 acres altogether in south-central Wisconsin
sand country planted November, 1999 to 40-odd species of grasses and forbs.
We had trouble keeping to a mowing schedule this past summer.  My field this
fall is a sea of dead crabgrass.  Below the thatch, scattered among what's
left of the summer's campion flowers, are  basal rosettes of black-eyed
susans and a few other non-weedy looking species I hope belong on a prairie.

I want to try burning off the choking mat of crabgrass; my neighbor says the
fire will harm the baby prairie-plant roots.

Who's right?  If I burn, should I do it this fall or next spring?

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