Check University Winterhardiness Data
If you worry about alfalfa winterkill, Dan Undersander says to choose varieties with university-generated winterhardiness scores. I feel very strongly...
Water For Sale
California alfalfa growers are considering the unthinkable in drought years, voluntarily cutting off irrigations in midsummer, and selling their water...
Weeds' Worst Nightmare
If Roundup Ready alfalfa hits the market next year, as expected, and the tech fee isn't too high, Steve Orloff expects it to quickly become popular in...
Racing To Resist Aphanomyces
There's a new to keep alfalfas free from a fungal disease that has been called one of the U.S.'s major limiting alfalfa diseases on poorly drained soil....
Authentic Alfalfas
2004 Buy Pure Alfalfa If you want the Real Thing, you probably have to pay for it, whether it's a Coke or a pure alfalfa variety. But alfalfa marketers,...
Expand With Caution
With beef prices recently at all-time highs, milk prices staging a comeback and alfalfa supplies below trend levels, commercial hay growers might think...
A Taste Of N
A little bit of nitrogen fertilizer on the right alfalfa fields is well worth the cost, say Steve and Randy Senn, Ephrata, WA. The brothers have been...
Besieged By Bugs
Western flower thrips aren't supposed to be an economic threat to alfalfa, but they're causing big headaches for Kent McMullen, Eltopia, WA. Millions...
Blister Beetle Stories Draw Fire
The articles Battle Blister Beetles and Travelin' Man in your March 2003 issue (pages 22, 24) unfairly singled out the state of Oklahoma. This was all...
Sulfur Boosts Alfalfa Yield
As little as 25 lbs per acre of sulfur can increase first- and second-cutting alfalfa yields by as much as 20%, according to University of Wisconsin studies....
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