Manure Tolerance Patent Filed
America’s Alfalfa has filed for a patent for the first manure-tolerant alfalfa genetics. In two years of testing at Waseca, MN, the company’s Ameristand...
Battle Blister Beetles
Alfalfa growers don't often see the need to treat blister beetles in alfalfa, says Glenn Studebaker, University of Arkansas extension entomologist. It's...
Check Your Hay For K
Before you relegate that rain-damaged or mature alfalfa to the feeder stacks, you might want to get it tested. You could be sitting on several tons of...
DEATH WATCH
A January cold spell in the snowless Upper Midwest has forage agronomists fearing the worst for alfalfa fields in much of that region. I suspect that...
Nebraska Video Promotes Alfalfa
Members of the Nebraska Alfalfa Marketing Association (NAMA) hope a new video will boost their hay sales. Titled Discover The Advantage, it was shown...
Renting Hay Ground
What's the going rate for standing hay? That's a cut and dried question, pardon the pun. It's the answer that isn't easy to determine. Virtually every...
Travelin' Man
At 72 years old, you'd think Phil Mayer would be done scouring the countryside, looking for good-quality alfalfa. Yet the lack of a risk-free product...
Thrips Aid Spider Mite Control
The presence or absence of western flower thrips should be considered when growers make spider mite control decisions, say California researchers. They...
Check Windrow Moisture
Ron Thaemert has seen a lot of one-ton rectangular bales sitting in fields with big Ws spray-painted on them. In each case, the grower made a bale, used...
Net Gains
Kevin Shinners doesn't understand why so many hay growers in humid climates still wrap round bales with twine. Many people don't use net-wrap because...
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