What is the World Alfalfa Congress?
The World Alfalfa Congress pulls together experienced alfalfa scientists, farmers, students, and businesses from around the world to learn from each other about production technology, economics, genetics, and environmental interactions of this important crop. Come join us for this important world get-together!
Importance of alfalfa in future of agriculture
Alfalfa is a perennial legume with tremendous potential contributions to soil health, environmental health, and human nutrition. There are opportunities for alfalfa-based production systems to address some of the key challenges to the future of agriculture and the environment. The value of alfalfa as an N2-fixing legume with significant soil and wildlife habitat advantages is often not well understood, nor widely appreciated.
Vision for the Future
New horizons are offered to research such as microbiome, chemical ecology, genome editing, and cropping systems offer new research frontiers and possible innovations. With the growing resources in digitalization, precision agriculture has high potential for producing alfalfa and linking with animal food production as well as non-animal foods.
At this conference, we ask attendees to examine a wide range of current research on this crop and to envision the future role for this crop to sustain agriculture for future generations.
