Most often known as sprouts on a deli sandwich or a large bale of dried plant clippings to be used as food for livestock, alfalfa is increasingly being studied for a wide range of uses in human ...

See a list of alfalfa benefits with input from a registered dietitian. Plus, get three ways for how to cook with alfalfa and up your intake. However, it’s worth adding to your own diet because of all ...

Have you noticed any winter injury to your alfalfa fields, or maybe you have some older stands that are thin? Maximizing tonnage from every inch of rain your alfalfa hay fields receive this year may ...

African lucerne, or alfalfa, is a nutrient-rich green that has been used in traditional African diets for centuries ...

Agriculture consumes the vast majority of water from the drought-reduced 1,450-mile-long river. Making cuts will test farmers’ dominance, setting up new fights about what savings they can achieve ...

There are many benefits to corn when it is planted after alfalfa, including greater yield, reduced nitrogen (N) requirement from fertilizer or manure, and reduced pest pressure compared to when corn ...

People don’t eat much alfalfa, at least not directly. But the crop widely grown throughout California and the West to feed cows across the world has become central to discussions about managing a ...

As wildfire smoke continues to fill the skies and drought grips the West, farmers are trying to cope with dwindling water supplies and do what they can to sustain profitable operations, this year and ...