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By: David Michael

David Michael — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:38:00 +0000

I am doing a Life Cycle Assessment of several animal production systems, some of which include alfalfa in their diet. I am looking for the emissions and resource use of alfalfa production for fibre in a ration, but cannot find any data for alfalfa. Anyone have any ideas?

By: Thumper

Thumper — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:33:54 +0000

Typically, if the ground is very fertile you could rotate crops every other year. The problem is, land is typically overfarmed requiring fertilizers to be added annually. For this reason, you would want to rotate the crops with corn one year then alfalfa for two years then back to corn. If you have the land available you could do a three crop rotation. You would need to pair up plants that return to the soil what the other crop removes. If you do not then you will need to add fertilizer to the soil.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:57:55 +0000

Alfalfa is a perennial, so how would that help on a rotating-crop basis? I don’t know much about farming. Would the rotation mentioned in the article [corn-alfalfa] require a multi-year period to be practical, that is take advantage of perennial growth, or could the rotation be done annually?

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