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Agronomy

High yielding alfalfa

I want to learn more about growing higher yielding alfalfa. What is the best resource you know of?

What varieties and treatments have you seen the most results from?

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Verified FBN Member (MT)

Finally should get this cut today. 3 weeks of rain has kept us out of it.

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Verified FBN Member (IA)

This is our first year growing alfalfa in ages, but we applied Soil X-Cyto from Conklin before seeding and we're pretty happy with our first...

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Verified FBN Member (IA)

I am working with a grower to improve his quality (RFV) with foliar fertilizer and enzymes. Testimonials on previous use indicate better mil...

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Verified FBN Member (NE)

Alfalfa likes highly available calcium. We've dry spread gypsum on our alfalfa some years. I've really wanted to try calcium nitrate after...

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Steven Sick
FBN Employee

Here are a couple good articles on how to improve alfalfa yields.

Here is a great article on how to improve alfalfa yields: https://www.pro...

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Verified FBN Member (MT)

We started raising round up ready alfalfa on our farm last year. We are dry land and only one cut a year. Maybe two on the right year. We...

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Verified FBN Member (WI)

I grow some RR alfalfa, on one of the farms we have, as it has a clover problem, but it is always lower yielding and lower quality then Dair...

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Verified FBN Member (WI)

I would recommend getting weight on your alfalfa now and start field trials to see what the difference is

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Verified FBN Member (WI)

Been doing a few different things for the last couple years. Always a ton of variables making it harder. But see some trends. Need higher Ph...

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