• Alfalfa is a major U.S. field crop without a safety net – Alfalfa is the fourth-most-valuable field crop in the United ...

Alfalfa is a core input into U.S. dairy and beef production and one of the country’s most economically significant crops. In 2024, it ranked as the fourth most valuable field crop, generating an ...

In the Harquahala Valley, hay fields stretch as far as the eye can see. Alfalfa hay is mainly used as feed for cattle and is big business in Arizona, with Arizona farms exporting over $100 million of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

WENDEN, Ariz. - 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 used ...

A Washington, D.C.,-based activist group is calling for New Mexico to limit the expansion of the pecan, dairy and alfalfa farming industries to conserve water for residential use. The report from Food ...

The farm grows alfalfa for export to Saudi Arabia, where it’s fed to dairy cows. But the farm’s water use had come under scrutiny. By Hiroko Tabuchi An Arizona farm owned by a Saudi Arabian company ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WENDEN, Ariz. (AP) — A blanket of bright ...