Update: Data here is from USDA, the “USGS” in the graphs is a typo in the code I used to generate them, which I’m too lazy to fix.

New Mexico alfalfa acreage is the lowest it’s been since the 1950s.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2024 estimate of alfalfa acreage in New Mexico, 130,000 acres, is the lowest it’s been since the 1950s. Acreage is down 55 percent since the peak at the turn of the century.

Here’s Arizona:

Different story for Arizona.

California:

California, growing less alfalfa

Colorado