The National Alfalfa & Forage Alliance, St. Paul, Minnesota, released the 2025 edition of its popular “Alfalfa Variety Ratings – Winter Survival, Fall Dormancy & Pest Resistant Ratings for Alfalfa Varieties”—an invaluable tool for both hay and livestock farmers, Extension specialists, agri-business personnel or simply anyone involved in the production of alfalfa.
Unlike any other publication, NAFA’s Alfalfa Variety Ratings is indispensable in providing an extensive listing of alfalfa varieties and their corresponding ratings for fall dormancy, winter survival, bacterial wilt, aphanomyces, leafhopper, and a host of other pests.
The publication also includes other important ratings such as grazing tolerance and standability to provide growers the information they need to make educated, informed decisions about the alfalfa varieties that will perform best in a given environment. All varieties listed in the Alfalfa Variety Ratings publication can be purchased in the United States for the 2025 production year.
The 2025 edition of NAFA’s Alfalfa Variety Ratings features 121 alfalfa varieties from 14 marketers that have been verified with the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies and the National Alfalfa Variety Review Board.
If a grower prefers an electronic version, he can try NAFA’s searchable, online Alfalfa Variety Ratings database where he can make the process of narrowing alfalfa varietal choices even easier. Available at alfalfa.org/varietyratings.php, NAFA’s searchable database allows a grower to search for varieties using up to 23 different parameters such as variety name, marketer, fall dormancy, winter survival, disease resistance, and insect resistance.
NAFA’s Alfalfa Variety Ratings publication is available in the November issue of Hay & Forage Grower magazine or by visiting NAFA’s website at alfalfa.org.
