Alfalfa is a core input into U.S. dairy and beef production and one of the country’s most economically significant crops. In ...

Colorado River water fills the furrows of a farm field in Blythe, Calif., where growers have been leaving some fields dry in exchange for cash payments to help conserve water. (Luis Sinco / Los ...

Re: The Nov. 26 piece by ProPublica “Measuring the Legacy of Water Use” and the accompanying table with “Top 20 water users” in the California Imperial Valley, which contrasted water “used to grow hay ...

An irrigation system waters an alfalfa field at the Fondomonte farm in Butler Valley, Ariz., in June. (Caitlin O'Hara / For the Washington Post / Getty Images) A Saudi dairy company that grows hay in ...

WENDEN, Arizona (AP) — A blanket of bright-green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona’s McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun. Matthew Hancock’s family has ...

If you were trying to grow a water-intensive crop like hay for cattle, for instance, you probably wouldn't go to the middle of the desert in Arizona, a state experiencing a water crisis so bad, it's ...

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In the 10 years High Plains Journal hosted Alfalfa U events across multiple states—Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorado, and Nevada—those in attendance were never short on pertinent topics. From ...

With Colorado and the southwest looking at an increasingly hotter and drier future, researchers with Colorado State University in the Grand Valley are looking into how alternative hay crops respond to ...

One good whiff is all it takes to send Paloma into a giddy gallop for the barn, where her human pals are loading bunks with luscious, leafy alfalfa hay. The nutrition-rich forage is like cake to the ...

Like most words beginning with "al," alfalfa derives from an Arabic word, the name given to a legume of ancient Persia. It translates roughly as the "best fodder," and now, thousands of years later, ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Reveal reporter Nathan Halverson about Arizona's investment in a major land deal that effectively ships the state's... Amid a water crisis, Arizona is using lots of it ...