There are two growing seasons for forage: warm and cool. When the warm-season grasses go dormant in winter due to cooling temperatures, forage is limited, so farmers plant wintertime alternatives: oat ...

One of the first scouting jobs each spring is assessing alfalfa fields for winterkill. Stand loss can be influenced by stand age, cutting management, soil pH and fertility, soil moisture and snow ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has taken a major step to stabilize water use in the state’s ...

• Alfalfa is a major U.S. field crop without a safety net – Alfalfa is the fourth-most-valuable field crop in the United States, generating about $8.1 billion in farm-gate value in 2024. Yet it ...

This has been a particularly tough year for establishing new alfalfa fields. Much of our region was wetter than normal in the spring, and the southern parts of Ohio received 2 to 4 inches of surplus ...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ legal battle over a Saudi-backed alfalfa farming company draining her state’s aquifers continues to garner national attention. Mayes has previously described it as ...

My mind was wandering the other day as I was enjoying one of our beautiful North Dakota summer days, and I started thinking about how we are in August. How many more of these nice warm days do we have ...