Have you watched the Olympics lately? With the summer 2020 games being held last June, and the winter games in Beijing just ending, the games have flooded headlines in the last year.

“What should I plant this year?”
“How often should I soil test?”
“Should I till before I plant?”

And just like that – another holiday season is upon us. Another year of milestones has passed, and the next round of holiday traditions is just around the corner. The years seem to fly by, and the time between these traditions seem to be a few days closer together each year.

The 2021 World Dairy Expo was my first trip since March of 2020. It felt long overdue, and I felt like it had been much longer than 18 months since I last traveled, but after two-and-a-half days of absorbing all the knowledge I could and catching up with as many people as I could, I was ready to be home again.

The standard for alfalfa is evolving, and so is the way we evaluate it. At the 2021 World Dairy Expo, David Weakley, director of forage nutrition research for Forage Genetics International, unveiled the new Leaves Enhance Alfalfa Forage (LEAF) test now available to growers.