What I\u27ve Learned from Three Years of Intensive Experience with No-Till Alfalfa

Three years ago, a project was begun to better understand the \u27hands-on\u27 aspects of no-till establishment of legumes especially alfalfa into fescue sod. Although no-till drills and technology had been around for nearly two decades, farmer feedback on the success of no-till establishment was not uniformly good. The University of Kentucky initiated a program called the \u27Establishment Initiative\u27 in partnership with seed companies and Agco-Tye to conduct no-till establishment demonstrations of no-till establishment. These demonstrations focused on getting alfalfa and red clover established into fescue sod which had been suppressed with herbicides. The following are some of the lessons learned