the forage group from NFREC has been measuring the yields in a commercial alfalfa field in Jackson County, Florida. The best yielding varieties averaged per cut almost 1,800 lbs./acre with a ...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says she is suing a Saudi Arabian agribusiness over what she calls “excessive pumping” of ...

Since winning election, President-elect Donald Trump has been talking about immigration, border security and government ...

So a team of researchers at Colorado State University’s Western Colorado Research Center is carefully tending and measuring ...

A plan to help shore up the depleted Colorado River by cutting off water to alfalfa fields in California's crop-rich Imperial Valley is finding support from the farmers who grow it. The Imperial ...

Alfalfa weevil Minimum of 30 stems per field collected in a W-pattern, place stems top first in bucket, measure stem height and count the number of larvae per stem Pea aphid Collect a minimum of 30 ...

A breeze wafted through the air on a late summer morning, rustling neatly kept plots of lush-green alfalfa at New Mexico State University’s Leyendecker Plant Science Research Center. The field ...

In the early 1860s Henry Miller and Charles Lux, a pair of German immigrants who had established themselves as butchers in San Francisco, began buying land along the San Joaquin River in the ...

Alfalfa, scientifically known as Medicago sativa, is a nutrient-rich herb with several benefits and uses. It is commonly used to feed livestock, but some people have also used it as an herbal ...

Drought-resistant crops and innovative farming methods could offer a lifeline for a river system on the edge in the arid Southwest.