Kevin H. Ganoe, Regional Field Crop Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Central New York Dairy & Field Crops Team
The summary for the fourth and final week of our first cutting monitoring can be found here.
If you are not familiar with our procedures we use alfalfa height to predict Neutral Detergent Fiber (NDF) for alfalfa, alfalfa/grass mixed and grass stands. Alfalfa height has proven to be a reliable indicator of NDF values in the field.
