Experts on alfalfa production recognize the growing season challenges many growers face this year and recommend producers continue to use sound practices that yield results. From late to May, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Alfalfa growers need to start thinking about whether they should apply potassium and phosphorus on their fields this spring and at what rate, said two Purdue University experts.

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 ...

Nitrogen is vital for all plant life, but increasingly the planet is paying a heavy price for the escalating use of nitrogen fertilizer. Excess nitrogen from fertilizer runoff into rivers and lakes ...

Competition from low-cost dairy feeds and the temptation to plant permanent crops have dropped California alfalfa acreage to barely over 560,000, down from 1.1 million as recently as 2006, but the ...