# From field to feed bunk: The HarvXtra Alfalfa advantage

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Podcast: [Feedstuffs in Focus](https://stenobird.com/podcast/feedstuffs-in-focus-695079)
Published: 2025-10-30T10:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Weather rarely cooperates, cows never take a day off, and forage quality used to hinge on a calendar. We sit down with Phil Bollman, National Sales and Marketing Director at Forage Genetics International, to unpack how lower‑lignin alfalfa flips the script on the old quality‑versus‑tonnage compromise and gives dairy producers real control over digestibility, timing, and ROI. Phil draws on decades as a dairy nutritionist to explain why alfalfa remains the backbone of high‑performing rations: ...

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