A lack of winter snowpack shouldn’t be a huge issue for alfalfa stands in the Northern Plains yet. University of Minnesota Extension Forage Agronomist Craig Sheaffer foresees bigger problems if drastic temperature fluctuations continue.”Watch out for March, March is a killing month,” said Sheaffer. “If alfalfa breaks dormancy, starts to grow and we encounter low temperatures there is a very good chance that we’re going to have some killing of those new shoots that are formed in the spring.”
