That’s not just a load of hay you see rumbling by on Western highways during summer months. Those hay bales form the foundation of rural agriculture in many Western communities. Alfalfa is a major ...

If California is really short of water, why are we shipping it to Asia? We can do one simple thing and our water supply crisis will be over. We can stop growing alfalfa. The top water-using activity ...

McMullen Valley has ancient aquifers, which hold groundwater supplies for the region. But locals say their wells are drying up now that an Emirati business began farming alfalfa. WENDEN, Arizona (AP) ...

If you were trying to grow a water-intensive crop like hay for cattle, for instance, you probably wouldn't go to the middle of the desert in Arizona, a state experiencing a water crisis so bad, it's ...

Re: The Nov. 26 piece by ProPublica “Measuring the Legacy of Water Use” and the accompanying table with “Top 20 water users” in the California Imperial Valley, which contrasted water “used to grow hay ...

Like most words beginning with "al," alfalfa derives from an Arabic word, the name given to a legume of ancient Persia. It translates roughly as the "best fodder," and now, thousands of years later, ...

Farmers could be paid not to make hay while the sun shines, per a new Imperial Irrigation District payment schedule and other actions authorized Tuesday aimed at shoring up the Colorado River's ...

One good whiff is all it takes to send Paloma into a giddy gallop for the barn, where her human pals are loading bunks with luscious, leafy alfalfa hay. The nutrition-rich forage is like cake to the ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Reveal reporter Nathan Halverson about Arizona's investment in a major land deal that effectively ships the state's... Amid a water crisis, Arizona is using lots of it ...