For the most part late summer seeding can be an excellent time to establish alfalfa which will lead to productive stands the next growing season. The decision of whether to proceed with a late summer ...

Above: Purdue Entomology Professor Christian Krupke at the Agronomy Center for Research and Education, inspecting alfalfa plot for the presence of alfalfa weevils A Purdue expert warned that messaging ...

Reports from the Thumb of Michigan about alfalfa fields that were thinned from last winter continue to reinforce the challenge of keeping high producing alfalfa in rotation. Fields that were late to ...

Spring is often thought of as the most common time to establish alfalfa and many other perennial species in Montana. However, there are opportunities at other times of the year to achieve high success ...

The Idaho legislature approved a doubling of the Alfalfa and Clover Seed Commission’s assessment cap and a change to the board’s composition. Fewer acres and rising costs drive the need for House Bill ...

TOUCHET, Wash. — Otis Garbe isn’t quite sure what he did to get one of his top alfalfa seed harvests this year. “For me, I’m going ‘What did I do this last year?’ so I can repeat it again this year,” ...

SWEDONA, Ill. — While the heydays of harvest are just around the corner, one golden crop is looking greener than ever for area farmers. Droughts across the great plains are bumping up prices for ...

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 ...

Walla Walla County might just be the only place on Earth where you have to brake for bees. “You can see the signs here,” says Mike Ingham, as he drives by a 20-mile-per-hour speed limit sign with a ...

Wet spring weather may have prevented you from planting alfalfa before you jumped into planting corn. Normally, I want alfalfa planted by mid-May on dryland sites and by the end of May under ...