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Don’t ignore alfalfa value when making fieldwork decisions
Apr 20, 2017, 15:15 PM
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A forage expert urges farmers to do the math if wet weather puts corn and soybean planting too close to alfalfa harvest time.
Dr. Dan Undersander with the University of Wisconsin-Madison says most dairy farmers should focus on their alfalfa first. “The quality of alfalfa declines 4/10’s of a point in digestibility per day, and it increases 4/10’s of a point in fiber per day. That’s about five points of relative feed value or relative forage quality, which is worth about $7.00 a ton in the marketplace.”
He tells Brownfield comparing the cost of planting row crops versus getting first crop alfalfa on time makes it an easy decision.
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