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...

It was an easy sell . . . well . . . kind of. As an extension agent in one of the biggest dairy counties in Wisconsin, the large majority of farmers I worked with had corn-alfalfa rotations with...

Should I go for maximum yield or maximum quality? For generations, alfalfa growers have wrestled with this quandary...

Alfalfa’s high yields and forage quality make it a premier forage worldwide. If anything about alfalfa could be improved, most growers would want to extend stand longevity...