An agronomist says the first crop of alfalfa is not what many farmers were hoping for. Jon Zuk with Winfield United tells Brownfield the cooler-than-normal weather and pests are why. “And that might contribute to some advantages to the alfalfa weevil as far as just starting to skeletonize some of those early stems and not […]
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