alfalfa

• UC scientists have determined a voracious microscopic pest known as the alfalfa stem nematode may be causing the reduced growth and crop losses. —  Daily Democrat Most Viewed
• "The concern is there will one day not be organic alfalfa, which is the primary food for cattle in this country," Golden said. —  Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
• County livestock extension agent Rafa Realivasquez says dairies have kept up demand for alfalfa, which is more profitable than some other crops.
• In many areas the plan of sowing clover chiefly with the alfalfa is a good one, providing the alfalfa is cut for a year or two, and is then grazed, as by that time grasses indigenous to the locality, or which grow well in the same, come in to such an extent as to form a very considerable proportion of the pasture. —  Clovers and How to Grow Them
• But when the alfalfa is all fed upon the farm on which it grew, where the plants grow freely, it then becomes a source of fertilization without a rival, probably, among plants grown upon the farm The fertility thus furnished does not consist so much in the plant food deposited in the soil directly as in that furnished in the successive crops that are grown and fed every year. —  Clovers and How to Grow Them

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