Alfalfa BY Adam Dearing and Kelsey Crews

Stages of growth The great alfalfa is planted as a seed The alfalfa needs to have plenty of water to grow. During the growth you need to fertilize the crop.

How to grow You will first need to find some good solid ground. Then you will need to plow or disk the ground into like a powder. After that you will also need to put some fertilize on the ground. After you have done this you can drill the seed or you can hand plant it.

How it is cared for To keep the alfalfa cared for all you will need to do is this. 1.Keep the alfalfa fertilized. 2.Keep the alfalfa sprayed for weeds 3.Keep the alfalfa sprayed for bugs.

Harvesting The ways to harvest alfalfa. And you can also cut it and role it for hay. You can also cut it and square bale it for hay.

Equipment The equipment needed. 1.You will need a tractor. 2.A disk or plow. 3.A hay bind or a disk bind. 4.A roller or square baler. 5.And a drill.

Important Why is this crop important? This crop is important because you can feed it to your cows. Or you can feed it to your horses or any live stock animal.

Market The market prices. People can sale this crop in roles or in square bails. Roles 20 to 80 dollars a roll Square bails 2 to 6 dollars a bail.

What it can be used for This crop can be used for 2 basic things. You can feed it to live stock Or you can sell it.

chopping Some or many people will chop the alfalfa like they would do silage. You would still use a silage chopper to do this and you would still follow all the rules as you do silage.

Region it is grown Alfalfa has a wide range of adaptation. It can be grown from very cold northern plains to high mountain valleys. Alfalfa can grow in just about any region but it cannot grow very good in some soils and that goes for all around the world.

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