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Why do farmers plant alfalfa in their corn fields?

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Hello, Alfalfa is a plant that usually has bacteria that grow on it's roots that take nitrogen from the air and change it chemically to a form that is usable by plants. Corn is a heavy user of nitrogen so it depletes the soil of available nitrogen... read more

Corn is a heavy user of nitrogen so it depletes the soil of available nitrogen quickly. For this reason farmers plant alfalfa in their corn fields to increase overall productivity of corn products without sacrificing field productivity. read more

2013 was a wet and cool year overall except for August. Our average harvest moisture was 20% across the whole farm. If we let corn dry all the way to 15% (maybe pushing into December with 2013 weather) in the field we would likely lose more money in grain loss than what we’d pay for drying. read more

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