Keeping establishment costs low, growing the right variety, having a solid fertilization program, and marketing well the alfalfa hay are key for a successful alfalfa hay producer.

4, at $3 billion; hay, which is mostly alfalfa, comes in at No. 8, with $1.6 billion in receipts. Growing hay and other forage and irrigating pasture for livestock (mainly cattle) takes at least ...

Although there's no shortage of great veggies and greens you can grow for your salad at home, one that often gets overlooked is alfalfa sprouts. Alfalfa sprouts can be eaten raw but can also be ...

Alfalfa does best on soils with fine to medium textures that are moderately to well ... Flower is commonly purple but may vary among shades of white, yellow and purple. Deep taproot. Hay, silage and ...

USDA reported hay sale prices for southeastern California ... use most of IID's agricultural water supply, largely to grow alfalfa, an investigation by The Desert Sun and ProPublica found.