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No Nurse-crop For Alfalfa

Categories: Grains and Forage Crops

Is it advisable to use oats with alfalfa seeds in seeding for alfalfa?

Some growers of alfalfa here advise it strongly, others advise against

it.



The general experience in California is decidedly against using oats,

barley, or any other nursecrop with alfalfa. Get the land in the best

possible condition and let the alfalfa have the full benefit of it. The

ripening of the grain crop will do the young alfalfa plants more harm by

robbing them of moisture than any protection which the taller plant can

afford.



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