GMN
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I need to know everything there is to growing alfalfa in MO? Planted alone, with a crop? How much per acre, what to fertilize it with? If you have to spray if cut at the right time? ETC...
GMN
GMN
What's the reason you can't grow it? Soil type?dun":1z62mjf3 said:Talk to your NRCS people about alfalfa in your area. Where we are, not all that far east of you, alfalfa is nearly impossible to grow. South by Rogersville it grows great.
novaman":5piswea2 said:What's the reason you can't grow it? Soil type?dun":5piswea2 said:Talk to your NRCS people about alfalfa in your area. Where we are, not all that far east of you, alfalfa is nearly impossible to grow. South by Rogersville it grows great.
As far as the spraying, there is very little done in my part of the country. Taking the first cutting off exposes the weevils to sunlight which kills them. Successive cuttings that year are weevil free.
Fertilizing and seedbed preperation are essential to a good stand. As was said P & K are heavily used by alfalfa. It is quite difficult to fertilize the stand once it is established as P & K won't move down to the roots with a surface application.
novaman":3gpso76p said:What's the reason you can't grow it? Soil type?dun":3gpso76p said:Talk to your NRCS people about alfalfa in your area. Where we are, not all that far east of you, alfalfa is nearly impossible to grow. South by Rogersville it grows great.
As far as the spraying, there is very little done in my part of the country. Taking the first cutting off exposes the weevils to sunlight which kills them. Successive cuttings that year are weevil free.
Fertilizing and seedbed preperation are essential to a good stand. As was said P & K are heavily used by alfalfa. It is quite difficult to fertilize the stand once it is established as P & K won't move down to the roots with a surface application.