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Alfalfa

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Alfalfa

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Tools for Alfalfa Production

UW–Madison Extension creates tools to help farmers model, understand, and apply numerous Growing Degree Day (GDD) based recommendations to optimize alfalfa harvests.

Model the weather near you and dive into harvest data in your region or across Wisconsin to inform cutting schedules, management decisions, and more.

Alfalfa Weather and Cutting Tool

A map-based weather tool utilizing current and historic weather data to provide a localized application of these guidelines across Wisconsin, aid farmers’ alfalfa management decisions, plan cutting schedules, and more.

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Alfalfa Harvest Alert and Scissor Cut Information

A single tool to track all the alfalfa data from Wisconsin and Minnesota as the season progresses. Users can filter their searches to get results close to them or identify trends across both states.

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Alfalfa News

Monitoring First Cut Alfalfa: Maximizing the quality and quantity of the 2025 crop

Monitoring First Cut Alfalfa: Maximizing the quality and quantity of the 2025 crop

2024 Wisconsin alfalfa seedings a mixed bag

2024 Wisconsin alfalfa seedings a mixed bag

Alfalfa Management Articles

▶ Watch: Focus on Forage Research

▶ Watch: Focus on Forage Research

▶ Watch: Focus on Forage Management

▶ Watch: Focus on Forage Management

▶ Forage Insect Pest Update

▶ Forage Insect Pest Update

▶ Determining the Value of Standing Forage

▶ Determining the Value of Standing Forage

Pricing Standing Alfalfa

Pricing Standing Alfalfa

First crop insect scouting in alfalfa

First crop insect scouting in alfalfa

2024 Wisconsin Alfalfa Yield and Persistence Program Results

2024 Wisconsin Alfalfa Yield and Persistence Program Results

Revisiting the significant role of grass on Wisconsin dairies

Revisiting the significant role of grass on Wisconsin dairies

Evaluating alfalfa stands for profit in spring 2025 

Evaluating alfalfa stands for profit in spring 2025 

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