Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Farmer Mark McBroom walks over a canal gate next to an alfalfa field that he temporarily left dry as part of a water conservation ...

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 ...

With above average temperatures this year, alfalfa weevil development is well ahead of schedule compared to recent years. Adults have already emerged from their overwintering sites to lay eggs in ...

The scrubby green plants that fill a checkerboard of 24-by-36-foot research plots on the arid plains of Mesa County could be part of a major shift in agriculture in the drought-plagued western United ...

If you manage fields with alfalfa, now is the time to be scouting for alfalfa weevil larvae in northern Indiana. Christian Krupke, Purdue Field Crops Pest Management Specialist, recently said that ...

Sclerotinia crown and stem rot, also called white mold, can be one of the most destructive diseases of alfalfa. The pathogen that causes this disease, Sclerotinia trifoliorum, infects the alfalfa ...

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