One chance per year. That’s all you get. There are no do-overs — no country club mulligans. That one chance refers to the proper timing of making first-cut alfalfa, and given the price of other commodities, the stakes are at an all-time high this year...

It’s been well-documented that alfalfa yields have not improved at the rates seen in other agronomic crops over the past 50 years...

Just as roast beef and mashed potatoes make for a natural combination on dinner plates, corn silage and alfalfa are brought together in most lactating dairy cow rations...

Perhaps no other issue garners more attention from alfalfa growers than the moisture level of the crop in the windrow...

Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), are more frequently being used for applying pesticides on farms for crop protection...

Mining for precious metals or diamonds requires tried and true equipment and techniques. Simply walking around aimlessly with a metal detector or sifting the dirt won’t often prove successful...

Companion: noun; one that accompanies, is closely connected, or serves another. Though often associated with a person, in the alfalfa world, companion is typically associated with a cereal grass crops...

If it’s true that fiber digestibility has a greater impact on milk production than the digestibility of any other feed component, then the road to greater feed efficiency and higher milk production must include improvements in forage digestibility...

Brock Kiesler is a hay producer located in Greenville, Ind., where he farms about 450 acres of hay and row crops. Annually, he produces and brokers 50,000 small square bales, 650 big square straw bale...

Beef cow-calf, stocker, and backgrounding enterprises rely on the forages available to keep production costs low...