University of Georgia (UGA) Cooperative Extension Forage Agronomist Lisa Baxter is using her social media savvy and love for Legos to share timely information with Georgia farmers.

To produce high-quality alfalfa, growers must be engaged in the timely management of pests, including weeds. Seedling alfalfa is especially susceptible to weed interference as interspecific competition can inhibit alfalfa growth and development and compromise stand persistence.

When man first started irrigating crops, he soon learned that long-term irrigation eventually resulted in the increase in soil salinity and lower crop yields. History is filled with examples of once-productive farmland that, over time, became marginal farmland due to salt buildup. This ongoing problem of increasing salinity has been referred to as one of the most significant problems facing agriculture today.