Alfalfa Management Guide
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North Central Regional Publication
Learn how to achieve top yields to maximize profits. This manual gives a wide range of information about growing alfalfa, including establishment, production and harvest. The publication has numerous color photographs identifying plants and pests as well as numerous tables and graphics. Zone maps are provided to help you make important choices for production in your geographic area.
Keywords
Insects covered include
- Alfalfa blotch leafminer
- Alfalfa weevil
- Aphids
- Blister beetle
- Clover leaf weevil
- Clover root curculio
- Grasshoppers
- Plant bugs
- Potato leafhoppers
- Spittlebugs
- Variegated cutworm
Diseases covered include
- Anthracnose
- Aphanomyces root rot
- Bacterial wilt
- Common leaf spot
- Lepto leaf spot
- Ffusarium wilt
- Phytophthora root rot
- Root-lesion nematodes
- Sclerotinia
- Spring black stem
- Summer black stem
- Verticillium wilt
Pages
NCR547, revised January 2011