Show Supply decline of Alfalfa seed May hike prices Reduced national supplies of alfalfa seed have price a Utah State University economist reported Leon extension farm management said U. S. Department of Agriculture estimates indicate that the national supply of seed available through next July will be in the lowest in six will be music in the ears of those who were not frozen out in the September It may even help Price prospects are improved over the past two or three heavy production The specialist said Utah Crop of alfalfa seed this years is forecast at 14 per cent below last but only one per cent below the average of the past ten He added that early frost and poor growing conditions during September were causes of reduced local growers who harvested seed from the first crop of alfalfa had excellent yields said it will probably pay Utah Alfalfa seed growers to store their seed for higher prices after the first of the He said a study of prices received by Utah growers shows that highest have been received from February through the lowest prices between September and almost three-fourths of Utah-grown alfalfa seed is sold by December a recent survey |