The group's name is a reference to the plant's supposed willingness to do anything for a drink.
Alfalfa fields and other animal feed crops make up the bulk of the agricultural activity and economy of the county.
He improved methods of cultivating Italian land by studying classical and modern techniques, as well as introducing new crops, such as Alfalfa and Rice.
Alfalfa House Community Food Cooperative Ltd is a not-for-profit food cooperative based in Enmore, Sydney, Australia.
Switzer's last starring roles were in a brief series of imitation-Bowery Boys movies; he reprised his "Alfalfa" character, complete with comically sour vocals, in PRC's Gas House Kids comedies of 1946 and 1947.
Clouded Sulphurs nectar at flowers such as Milkweed (Asclepias sp.), Butterfly Bush (Buddleja sp.), Coneflower (Dracopis, Echinacea, and Rudbeckia), Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), Dandelion (Taraxacum sp.), Clover (Trifolium sp.), and Tall verbena (Verbena bonariensis) and many more.
The larvae feed upon more than forty different species of plants including but not limited to; Alfalfa, Aster, Blueberry, Chickweed, Clover, Corn, Dock, Flax, Goldenrod, miscellaneous garden vegetables, Grasses, Mullein, Oats, Raspberry, Rye, Tobacco, and Wheat.
He started Swanton Berry Farm in 1983 near Santa Cruz, California and subsequently developed a wide range of new methods, which include crop rotations, such as broccoli and brussels sprouts, trap crops such as mustard and alfalfa, and the use of natural predators, to control strawberry specific pests and diseases.
In 1940, she was the guest-starring lead in The New Pupil when cast as Sally, who briefly takes Alfalfa (Carl Switzer) away from Darla Hood.
Rockford, IL-based Pierce Chemical Company was founded in 1948 when Dr. Alan Pierce assumed active management of a company known as Midwest Extraction, which focused on extracting chlorophyll from alfalfa.
After the war he partnered with his six brothers (the Beermann Brothers) in farming, alfalfa dehydrating and cattle raising in Dakota County, Nebraska.
;Herbicide-resistant crops : commercial varieties of important agricultural crops (including soy, maize/corn, sorghum, canola, alfalfa and cotton) have been developed that incorporate a recombinant gene that results in resistance to the herbicide glyphosate (trade name Roundup), and simplifies weed control by glyphosate application.
It is bright green with a roughly spherical body, and often swarms in large numbers on living plants, especially Fabaceae including alfalfa (which is sometimes called lucerne, hence the first part of the common name).
Having searched for the appropriate terroir since 1985, in 1989 the Perrins and Haas chose the site, a former alfalfa farm on top of a Late Cretaceous seabed, for its soil pH and limestone base similarities to Beaucastel.
Alfalfa dreams that he is a student at "Hale University" (a spoof of Yale University) and that he is a big football star with poor grades.
Alfalfa planted in strips among cotton, to draw away lygus bugs, while castor beans surround the field, or tobacco is planted in strips among it, to protect from the budworm Heliothis.
Designed to mimic the diet that Japanese cattle were receiving, Wagyu cattle in the United States are fed a mixture of corn, alfalfa, barley and wheat straw.
One of them, Arthur B. Lyman, worked to bring Grimm's alfalfa to the attention of Professor Willet Hays at the University of Minnesota.