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Newbie question on growing alfalfa
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<blockquote data-quote="Phil2" data-source="post: 1138674" data-attributes="member: 22388"><p>Thanks for your reply. Your area should be very similar to mine, slightly more rain and less clay I'd guess but fairly close. I neglected to mention that I have been running annual soil tests and amending for the last 3 years with alfalfa in mind while planting millet to get something from it until in the mean time. PH is still a little a little low (6.4 this spring), P & K came back with basically maintenance recommendations. I'd read and heard your point about the alfalfa toxicity in established plots but apparently this really only starts taking affect after the last year. Everyone I spoke to assured me that planting the same 'type' of seed into it would be fine since we had only put it down last fall. So far, it looks like they were right. What I've put down this spring is popping up nicely and what was planted last fall is now budding. I'm set to have it cut and bailed this next week, weather permitting, so I should have a better idea how things are working out after that.</p><p></p><p>I do have a question on yields though. I've often read 3-4 tons/acre for a good stand of alfalfa, is this meant on a per cutting basis or a per year basis? I'd assume per year? So roughly a ton/acre per cut with first cut being the highest yield?</p><p></p><p>thanks again,</p><p></p><p>Phil</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phil2, post: 1138674, member: 22388"] Thanks for your reply. Your area should be very similar to mine, slightly more rain and less clay I'd guess but fairly close. I neglected to mention that I have been running annual soil tests and amending for the last 3 years with alfalfa in mind while planting millet to get something from it until in the mean time. PH is still a little a little low (6.4 this spring), P & K came back with basically maintenance recommendations. I'd read and heard your point about the alfalfa toxicity in established plots but apparently this really only starts taking affect after the last year. Everyone I spoke to assured me that planting the same 'type' of seed into it would be fine since we had only put it down last fall. So far, it looks like they were right. What I've put down this spring is popping up nicely and what was planted last fall is now budding. I'm set to have it cut and bailed this next week, weather permitting, so I should have a better idea how things are working out after that. I do have a question on yields though. I've often read 3-4 tons/acre for a good stand of alfalfa, is this meant on a per cutting basis or a per year basis? I'd assume per year? So roughly a ton/acre per cut with first cut being the highest yield? thanks again, Phil [/QUOTE]
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