Alfalfa does best on soils with fine to medium textures ... Flower is commonly purple but may vary among shades of white, yellow and purple. Deep taproot. Hay, silage and pasture. High in protein, ...

Producing local alfalfa hay is an opportunity for growers in southeast ... historical data indicate that a field with a good first-year production can yield more in the third year than a field ...

Alfalfa weevil Minimum of 30 stems per field collected in a W-pattern, place stems top first in bucket, measure stem height and count the number of larvae per stem Pea aphid Collect a minimum of 30 ...

In the early 1860s Henry Miller and Charles Lux, a pair of German immigrants who had established themselves as butchers in San Francisco, began buying land along the San Joaquin River in the ...

U.S. hay production was up in 2024. The USDA says total production of 122.462 million tons was 3% larger than 2023, with a ...

Kansas hay market report for the week ending Jan. 18, from the Kansas Department of Agriculture-USDA Market News Service, Jan ...

Nutrition content can be similar to the current year’s hay with the exception of vitamins (especially A and E), which are lost during field drying ... content of alfalfa pellets should be ...

“The grand theory is if we can find less thirsty hay crops ... fields, leaving farmers without any yield. Early results indicate the alternatives use less water than alfalfa, but the trial ...

Hay acreage declined in the southeastern United States in 2024, but the region’s hay production rose 2 percent, and was up 17 ...