Alfalfa is an annual or perennial herbaceous plant, which can be eaten as a vegetable, and a lot of people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces take it as a home vegetable, but mainly eat its leaves. Alfalfa is also a kind of pasture grass, which not only has high yield, but also has excellent grass quality, and all kinds of livestock and poultry prefer to eat it. Alfalfa contains a variety of nutrients, such as rich dietary fiber, sugar, it is also very low in calories.

A, alfalfa is what crop

1, alfalfa belongs to the annual or perennial herbaceous plants, it can be used as a vegetable to eat, mainly in the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to produce more. Because alfalfa is a legume, its roots can spread underground for about 10 meters, which allows it to fully absorb the nutrients in the soil, and regular consumption of alfalfa can also balance the pH value of the human body.

2, alfalfa is also a kind of pasture, it is not only high yield, and grass quality is also relatively good, many of the poultry are more like to eat. Alfalfa is the common name for plants in the genus Clover, also called clover.

3, alfalfa contains many nutrients, not only has a rich dietary fiber, there are very few sugars, so it is very low calorie, is a very good high-fiber low-calorie food. Because of this feature of alfalfa, many obese people use it to lose weight.

Second, why can't cattle eat alfalfa

1, alfalfa in the crude protein content is relatively high, in the young alfalfa grass contains some nitrates and nitrites, when the cattle eat alfalfa on an empty stomach, it will be easy to cause rumen dropsy. So before feeding alfalfa, the breeder will feed some grass straw or wild green hay to the cattle first, but often this will also cause harm to the cattle's body.

2, although alfalfa is particularly high in nutritional value and has the title of king of pasture, but its nutritional composition is not comprehensive. If you only feed alfalfa, it will make the cattle in other aspects of nutritional deficiencies, cattle forage must be grass crops and leguminous crops mixed with other grass to meet the nutritional needs of feeding.

3, because China's livestock development is too fast, resulting in the supply of high-quality forage can not keep pace with the development of livestock, so the domestic alfalfa is basically in short supply. Most of the alfalfa fed by most livestock enterprises is mostly imported from abroad, but the price of these alfalfa is very high, which will cause some economic pressure in the long run.