Excessive Rainfall and its Effects on Soil Nutrient Levels, Summer Nursery Sod Checklists of Things to Do.

The Effect of Water pH, Hardness and Purity on Pesticide Performance, Improving Root Health in Sod, New Fertilizer Products, Spring Checklist

With higher land costs, tighter forage inventories and stronger hay prices, increasing yield is becoming key to reducing our cost of producing forage. Three factors limiting our forage yields are old stands, poor establishment and low soil …

It is sometimes difficult to know what to do when winterkill completely takes out your alfalfa stands, or you have a winter injured stand that is thin, patchy and unhealthy. There are many options that can be considered, depending on the calendar …

Frost heaving can significantly damage alfalfa plants, leaving stands with much less yield potential. Plants may initially appear undamaged, but taproots are typically broken and unable to pick up enough nutrients or moisture, and stands eventually …

A successful forage establishment is a uniform, weed free stand that will grow quickly and vigorously to provide high yields during that first year, and for the life of the stand. The most critical factors include packing a firm seedbed and proper …