Researching efficient nitrogen management

Kansas Digest: Nitrogen efficiency research, the farmer’s share of food dollars, and dairy scholarships open.

Climate change: Farmers in Northern Ghana switch to sorghum cultivation to adapt to the dry spell

Climate change: Farmers in Northern Ghana switch to sorghum cultivation to adapt to the dr...

Sorghum: The Unlikely Food Source for Pollinators

Millet is Having a Moment. Is the Ancient Grain Ready for a Resurgence?

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has declared 2023 the international year of millets, praising the grain’s ability to grow in arid soil with minimal inputs. For many farmers, 2023 could be the year they first meet millet. But Jean Hediger is wondering what took everyone else so long to catch up. Hediger has been celebrating the crop on her Nunn, CO farm ever since she began growing it more than two decades ago.   “Lots of the farmers here, they joke and call me the queen of millet,” she says. “We’re very enthusiastic about millets for a lot of

Southwest Kansas Growers Earn Bin Buster Award With 245.80 BPA Sorghum

In their second year of participation in the National Sorghum Yield Contest, Brant and Amy Peterson, who operate Winsome Farms in Johnson, Kansas, earned the Bin Buster Award with a yield of 245.80 bushels per acre.

Modern crop improvement takes a historical approach - Alliance for Science

Sorghum, rice, wheat, maize and barley are hugely important in the human diet, with more than 50 percent of all calories consumed coming from just a few key cereal crops. Now scientists are pairing modern gene editing with a look at the past to improve the performance of these powerhouse plants. Before they occupied such […]

Small grains deliver big returns for African farmers facing climate change - Alliance for Science

The rains are long gone and the field is dry, but the sorghum crop is flush with luscious green leaves, foretelling a good harvest. The stubby, thin sorghum stalks, which delicately balance bi-color heads of grain, crowd farmer Simangaliso Ncube’s one-hectare plot in Mapulubusi village in Zimbabwe. Ncube planted the sorghum in the 2019-20 season, […]

Degener: Farming ‘is better for you’

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Burlington hydroponic farm at the forefront of agriculture trend

Your Local Greens is in Burlington.