As we move into the growing season, dandelions can cause many potential headaches not just in your lawn but also in your alfalfa field. It is important to remember that dandelions establish in the ...
Farming for cattle feed accounts for nearly half of the water drawn out of the depleted Colorado River. Researchers are ...
Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. As Arizona struggles to adapt to a water shortage that has dried out farms and ...
Soil fertility plays a crucial role in forage production and can directly impact farm profitability. Yet, when budgets ...
FARGO, N.D. -- Difficult weather conditions have thrown alfalfa harvesting off schedule this year. "This raises the question of best management for the alfalfa harvest as the end of the growing season ...
WENDEN, Ariz. (AP) — A blanket of bright green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona’s McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun. Matthew Hancock’s family has used ...
A Washington, D.C.,-based activist group is calling for New Mexico to limit the expansion of the pecan, dairy and alfalfa farming industries to conserve water for residential use. The report from Food ...
People don’t eat much alfalfa, at least not directly. But the crop widely grown throughout California and the West to feed cows across the world has become central to discussions about managing a ...
Although Nevada is often associated with the bright lights and slot machines of Sin City, alfalfa is the leading crop in the state and it is sold to many surrounding states. An Alfalfa U event was ...