National Alfalfa and Forage Alliance (NAFA).

The National Alfalfa and Forage Alliance (NAFA) was officially formed this spring at a meeting of stakeholders held in Denver, CO. The new organization, a hybrid of the existing National Alfalfa Alliance (NAA) and other industry stakeholders, was formed to significantly enhance and broaden what the NAA was doing. A primary tenet of the new organization is that it is an "umbrella" organization.

NAFA is administered by Co-Executive Directors Beth Nelson of Beth C.W. Nelson & Associates, Inc. in St. Paul, MN--whose primary focus will be legislative/regulatory matters and Rod Christensen of Ag Management, Inc. in Kennewick, WA, whose focus will be all other administrative matters.

Membership is available to any U.S. individual, association, firm, or corporation actively engaged in growing, producing, handling, processing, or purchasing alfalfa/forage hay or haylage, or alfalfa seed in the United States or in supplying goods or commercial services to producers of alfalfa/forage hay or haylage, or alfalfa seed in the United States.