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T_Max said:
Any of you guys get aphids in your alfalfa? Around here they have to spray every year of the aphids hammer it.


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What part of KS you in Tmax? I'm new to KS and I am in East Central. Looking to do some alfalfa plots as it seems to be a good source of year round food.
 
JBAGS said:
What part of KS you in Tmax? I'm new to KS and I am in East Central. Looking to do some alfalfa plots as it seems to be a good source of year round food.
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Central central. Junction City


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Going to order some alfalfa from Welter Seeds and likely do a couple plots ranging from .5ac up to 2ac. Likely going to put them in hay fields. Hay fields may have MINIMAL VERY old faint alfalfa. Very little if any. Do you think this will be ok or do I still need to kill it off and plant something else for a season?

What version of the alfalfa from Welter would be best for deer plot?
 
smithhunter1975 said:
Going to order some alfalfa from Welter Seeds and likely do a couple plots ranging from .5ac up to 2ac. Likely going to put them in hay fields. Hay fields may have MINIMAL VERY old faint alfalfa. Very little if any. Do you think this will be ok or do I still need to kill it off and plant something else for a season?

What version of the alfalfa from Welter would be best for deer plot?
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If u have alfalfa in there…. Gonna be best to start over. It’ll have some toxicity to new plants. Not sure if all would get killed as I’ve never tried it. But will have impact.
If it were me… I’d kill it all and start over.
There is another option as well. If u kill it NOW & waited a month - u might have a long enough interval in there. Usually it’s one full season but - I suspect u could do it now & reseed some alfalfa in late August/early September.
 
I am going to spray it as soon as weather cooperates and drill in some alfalfa. Looked at it again today and very little, if any existing alfalfa in the stand
 
Already pounding the alfalfa.

There won't be any need to ever mow this plot I suspect.

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^^^^^. I think Alfalfa may be the single best food/draw for deer. They were hitting mine even when it turned brown last winter, and it greens up first. Not to mention the nutritional value of it.
 
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^^^^^. I think Alfalfa may be the single best food/draw for deer. They were hitting mine even when it turned brown last winter, and it greens up first. Not to mention the nutritional value of it.
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Considering the amount of months it provides forage/tonnage. It has to be 1A.


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Alfalfa always surprises me. I can go out on the coldest days and there is a little tuft of green at the base of the plant. Love it!
 
I am sure it is in this thread somewhere, but ok to spray alfalfa with clethodim and butyrac? I thought that is what they were for but the local coop seemed surprised when I told him what I was planning to spray. If good to go, how long before I should spray the alfalfa that I drilled last fall? It didn’t get rain for a long time so didn’t grow much last fall (could see rows but very little growth), this spring it is just greening up and starting to grow now.
 
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