WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Poor spring weather could throw another curve at farmers already behind in the count on crop planting. Alongside the fields ready for corn and soybean seed could be hay crops ...

For the most part late summer seeding can be an excellent time to establish alfalfa which will lead to productive stands the next growing season. The decision of whether to proceed with a late summer ...

SWEDONA, Ill. — While the heydays of harvest are just around the corner, one golden crop is looking greener than ever for area farmers. Droughts across the great plains are bumping up prices for ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Time is running out on forage producers to plant alfalfa seed genetically modified to withstand glyphosate herbicide. Whether the clock is restarted on future Roundup Ready ...

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 Central ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Corn and soybeans weren't the only crops impacted by the cold, wet weather we had this spring. Alfalfa and hay farmers are behind as well. Alfalfa is used for feed and bedding for ...

Wet spring weather may have prevented you from planting alfalfa before you jumped into planting corn. Normally, I want alfalfa planted by mid-May on dryland sites and by the end of May under ...

As farmers and ranchers continue to strive for dynamic options in forage production, many across Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma and South Carolina are discovering alfalfa can be the Robin to bermudagrass’s ...

Take a road trip through the Midwest during the growing season, and it feels like you’re moving through a sea of corn and soybeans grown largely for livestock feed or ethanol. But now, low grain ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday temporarily halted the planting of genetically engineered alfalfa across the country in response to a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Colorado—In the May 1 report, compared to last report, trade activity and demand light. Small square bale producers continue to sell out of 2024 hay as new crop first cutting nears. Record high cattle ...

Reporting from Holtville, Calif. — The machine harvester cut across Ronnie Leimgruber’s alfalfa field, blades whirring, leaving behind a thick trail of leafy legume ready to be dried and baled.