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

Keeping establishment costs low, growing the right variety, having a solid fertilization program, and marketing well the alfalfa hay are key for a successful alfalfa hay producer.

For this reason, some hard-core hay producers are tearing up stands of irrigated alfalfa and will plant a grain of some type, probably corn. Many that are doing this say they can sell a load of ...

Much of the hay is used to feed cows locally or in nearby ... As for the large acreages now growing alfalfa, Babbitt noted that the crop generates relatively low returns and is often the first ...

Fall Seeded Crop - The spring harvest of a fall-seeded alfalfa crop should be based on plant development and vigor. If the alfalfa plants look vigorous and the roots are well developed ...

According to Dale Hicks, agronomy and plant genetics, early planted corn ... cut program in McLeod and Meeker Counties. When the alfalfa gets to be about 15-16 inches tall, samples will be cut ...

USDA reported hay sale prices for southeastern California ... use most of IID's agricultural water supply, largely to grow alfalfa, an investigation by The Desert Sun and ProPublica found.

Alfalfa and hay producers are watching drought conditions and dairy demand as they plan for 2025, David Murray writes.

Alfalfa and other types of hay are among the state’s most valuable crops, often tallying more than half a billion dollars each year in sales. In 2022, there were 6,803 Utah farms growing at ...