{"id":4489,"date":"2015-05-28T13:07:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2015-05-28T13:07:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:07:33","slug":"alfalfa-winter-hardiness-trial-results-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/28\/alfalfa-winter-hardiness-trial-results-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfalfa Winter Hardiness Trial Results Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Winter survival is important for a perennial crop like alfalfa.<\/strong> The harsh winters typical of Northern New York make winter hardiness\u00a0an essential trait for alfalfa production. Loss of a high quality perennial crop to\u00a0winterkill is an economic blow to producers with both time and money lost to crop rotation and reestablishment costs.<\/p>\n<p>Some alfalfa varieties have better winter hardiness than others and are thus better suited to survive a truly harsh NNY winter. However, alfalfa decline due to poor drainage and waterlogged soils will not be remedied by superior winter hardy varieties.<\/p>\n<p>So what should cold climate alfalfa growers do? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NNYADP2014Hansen.WinterSurvReport.pdf\">Click here to read the 2014 season results of the Testing Alfalfa Varieties &amp; Germplasm for Winter Survival in NNY<\/a><\/span>\u00a0project funded by the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program. The project leaders Julie L. Hansen, Donald Viands, and Jamie Crawford of the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University; collaborators are CCE NNY Field Crops and Soils Specialist Kitty O&#8217;Neil and Cornell Willsboro Research Farm Manager Michael Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter survival is important for a perennial crop like alfalfa. The harsh winters typical of Northern New York make winter hardiness\u00a0an essential trait for alfalfa production. Loss of a high quality perennial crop to\u00a0winterkill is an economic blow to producers with both time and money lost to crop rotation and reestablishment costs. Some alfalfa varieties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press-releases","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4490,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions\/4490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}