Most often known as sprouts on a deli sandwich or a large bale of dried plant clippings to be used as food for livestock, alfalfa is increasingly being studied for a wide range of uses in human ...

The Southwest United States continues to endure a “megadrought,” a term used to describe drought conditions lasting at least two decades. As a result, the question of why we grow certain crops in the ...

That’s not just a load of hay you see rumbling by on Western highways during summer months. Those hay bales form the foundation of rural agriculture in many Western communities. Alfalfa is a major ...

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 ...

A field day focused on yellow-flowered alfalfa is set for June 26 at Bud Smith's ranch in rural Perkins County. It takes place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the ranch, located one mile south and one mile ...

VERIFY reader Lisa also asked if Saudi Arabia is actually using water in Arizona to grow alfalfa. A Saudi Arabian company grows alfalfa on farmland in Arizona and California and sends it overseas to ...

A new study conducted in collaboration with the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) shows when farmers ...