That’s not just a load of hay you see rumbling by on Western highways during summer months. Those hay bales form the foundation of rural agriculture in many Western communities. Alfalfa is a major ...

If California is really short of water, why are we shipping it to Asia? We can do one simple thing and our water supply crisis will be over. We can stop growing alfalfa. The top water-using activity ...

Alfalfa producers face rising costs, falling prices and limited safety-net support as exports weaken and 2025 losses near ...

Re: The Nov. 26 piece by ProPublica “Measuring the Legacy of Water Use” and the accompanying table with “Top 20 water users” in the California Imperial Valley, which contrasted water “used to grow hay ...

SWEDONA, Ill. — While the heydays of harvest are just around the corner, one golden crop is looking greener than ever for area farmers. Droughts across the great plains are bumping up prices for ...

Don't be surprised if some seeds do not sprout. When sprouts have turned green, drain any residual water and refrigerate them. While we wait for spring vegetable gardens to start producing, it’s easy ...

If you talk to most farmers in the Brazos River Bottom many will tell you that there’s not much that can’t be grown in that fertile soil. That soil plus the availability of water has a couple of ...

A recent Tribune article on alfalfa quotes Professor Daniel Sumner saying, in effect, that Utah should grow alfalfa because it’s good at it and farmers can make a lot of money, so it’s “good for the ...

In the early 1860s Henry Miller and Charles Lux, a pair of German immigrants who had established themselves as butchers in San Francisco, began buying land along the San Joaquin River in the Central ...

Two Jackson County farmers are seeking to throw out a ban on genetically-engineered crops that voters passed in May. A lawsuit filed in Jackson County Circuit Court claims that the ordinance is ...