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- :._ <br />~^-• Unlled Steles <br />` ~ Department Of <br />Ap~icullure <br />~1 <br />~~p ,tn~ "rte '•n.~~a.,,,7t. <br />Solt Suite 204, Crossroads Plaza <br />Conservetlon 2784 Crossroads Blvd. <br />Sarvlce Grand Junction, Co. 81501 <br />sueteel: ECOL SCI 190 - Alfalfa varieties for NW Colorado <br />TO All DCs in Area 1 <br />oe1s~ December 24, 1980 <br />The following parcel list of alfalfa varieties has been compiled from various <br />contacts with seed dealers, farmers, and research agencies in Area 1. This is <br />- a guide for your use in making alfalfa recommendations to land users. Some are <br />more winter hardy or more adapted to dry land plantings and some have proven to be <br />good mixes with pasture grasses in various cases. Others even fit into more than <br />one situation. <br />Host of the old standbys like Vernal,,Ranger, and Ladak are still being used and <br />are still good species to plant. Other varieties such as Apollo, Anchor, and Titan <br />are just now being tryed in certain locations throughout the Northwestern part <br />of Colorado. <br />~ If you are asked to evaluate a new stand of alfalfa, use the following information <br />~. to make this evaluation. In new seedings of alfalfa, you should see at least <br />ten or more plants per square foot. As time goes on, this figure should reduce <br />itself downward to approximately three plants per square foot. <br />On all• alfalfa plantings which we are involved with, remember to impress on the <br />cooperator the importance of a good seedbed, especially if they are new in the game <br />of raising alfalfa. This factor alone can either make you or break you when planting <br />alfalfa. <br />Last, I have igcluded a few brief descriptions that were available from the Colorado <br />Crop Variety Recommendations, handbook developed by Colorado State University in <br />Fort Collins. I have also copied a couple summaries on alfalfa trials ran by the <br />C.S.U. experimental stations. <br />When more information becomes available on alfalfa varieties, I will update the <br />attached list and sent it out. <br />a1~ ~,~i~o-r--~- <br />Charles A. Holcomb <br />~ Conservation Agronomist <br />O Tne Sod Coneerv,l~on Serv~ca SCS-AS-: <br />U i, en ,pent, of 1ne 10-79 <br />Oeoenmenl of epncullu~e <br />