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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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