A new study from Utah State University suggests that the Colorado River basin states — including Arizona — may have a solution to the looming water crisis right under their noses: alfalfa.

There’s a definite sense of long-term optimism among alfalfa growers nationwide, according to Beth Nelson, president of the National Alfalfa and Forage Alliance, which is based in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. As Arizona struggles to adapt to a water shortage that has dried out farms and ...

PHOENIX — The state’s largest public pension fund is selling off its interest in a company that owns a 3,000-acre western Arizona farm that grows alfalfa to ship to the Middle East. The move by the ...

Sept 17 (Reuters) - The detection of a small amount of genetically modified material in a Washington state farmer's non-GMO alfalfa crop constitutes a "commercial issue" only and does not warrant any ...