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southern MN | I find alfalfa more forgiving than we think, but then there is that one bad winter that hits just when you try to push it...
If you hay it you don't want many growing degrees left so it doesn't have time to regrow and deplete the roots and might want to leave a few Mowhawk strips in the field to catch snow and keep a snow cover. A foot of un mowed per 40 feet or whatever.
Grazing, can be hard on the crown of a real good alfalfa; I put a creeping alfalfa in a field road with grass seed, wow it is not fast growing alfalfa but is that nice, wish I had it in my pasture, the crown is supposed to stay lower and not get damaged by traffic or cattle. But you are pretty good at going gentle on things, so your strip grazing after frost should work fine. Leave it a little hairy to catch snow.....
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Late alfalfa question (plus some pics)
