What’s Your Crop’s Life Expectancy? - The intensity of cutting management (the number of cuttings made per year) should be based on the desired quality and life expectancy of the crop. If the goal is ...

Alfalfa is an important and valuable forage crop with high protein content as feed for dairy cows, beef cattle, calves and other livestock. It is highly beneficial to enrich soil with nitrogen and a ...

Alfalfa and forage growers may want consider an insurance program that can help them cover financial risk. Glenda Blindert, a crop insurance agent at Blindert Insurance Agency, Salem, South Dakota, ...

Stay ahead of three early-season pests with scouting strategies that can protect yield before damage takes hold in corn, ...

Planting alfalfa this summer or fall? Romulo Lollato and Doo-Hong Min, forage specialists with Kansas State University, have some best practices to make sure your investment pays off. “Alfalfa is a ...

WRIGHT COUNTY, Minn. -- The dry weather continues to be an issue across the state. Corn and soybeans are struggling in some parts of Minnesota, but the alfalfa crop has become a concern, too. "Some of ...

A breeze wafted through the air on a late summer morning, rustling neatly kept plots of lush-green alfalfa at New Mexico State University’s Leyendecker Plant Science Research Center. The field had all ...

That’s not just a load of hay you see rumbling by on Western highways during summer months. Those hay bales form the foundation of rural agriculture in many Western communities. Alfalfa is a major ...

BROWN COUNTY (WLUK) -- When it comes to growing corn, there's an old saying that goes, "Knee high by the Fourth of July." Judging from some crops in Brown County, the season is off to a good start, ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- Alfalfa holds promise for improving the environment and farm income, and it may be time for it to become a program crop like corn and soybeans, according to a University of ...

MT. VERNON — Wet weather in April and May followed by a July heat wave have left Grant County alfalfa crops in a mostly positive state this summer. While water is generally good for plant growth, too ...

With its large water right from the Colorado River, the Imperial Irrigation District in Southern California currently grows about 141,000 acres of alfalfa, a large irrigation water-using crop. The ...