NEWS

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is a perennial forage legume with high forage yield and nutritive value. The “Queen of Forages” is one of the most widely grown forage crops in the U.S. with most production concentrated in the northern and western regions of the country.

As everyone knows, Mother Nature can be a pretty fickle lady when success or failure hinges on the weather, like planting and harvest season. 

At Progressive Forage, we like to get to know our readers. One of the ways we do this is through our reader polls that are displayed on the right side of your computer screen any time you are on our website.

Heading into spring, it looked like U.S. growers intended to devote more acreage to hay in 2020 than in either 2019 or 2018. By the end of June, that anticipated increase had disappeared.

On July 9, the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced the acceptance of more than 1.2 million acres in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands during the recent sign-up period that began March 16 and ended May 15.