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...

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...

For many Western alfalfa growers, rodents fall into a major pest category right along with insects, diseases, and weeds...

The current drought in the West has likely had no greater impact on other agricultural entities than on alfalfa, according to Dan Putnam, the longtime extension forage agronomist...

Alfalfa growers in the western U.S. are very aware of how important it is to have adequate irrigation water to produce a crop...