05/21/2024 SOURCE: theconversation.com
Sweet sorghum has multipurpose post-harvest uses. It can produce grains, animal feed and sugary juice, making it unique among crops.
Sweet sorghum is a hardy, nutritious, biofuel crop that offers solutions in drought-hit southern Africa
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03/20/2024 SOURCE: www.farmprogress.com
Kansas Digest: Nitrogen efficiency research, the farmer’s share of food dollars, and dairy scholarships open.
Researching efficient nitrogen management
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02/21/2023 SOURCE: www.youtube.com
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12/28/2022 SOURCE: flip.it
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
Millet is Having a Moment. Is the Ancient Grain Ready for a Resurgence?
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Nancy Kavazanjian
Topics: Sorghum,
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.
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08/29/2022 SOURCE: allianceforscience.cornell.edu
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 […]
Modern crop improvement takes a historical approach - Alliance for Science
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Sorghum, Food/Nutrition, World Hunger, Ag Africa, Food Security/Shortage,
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, […]
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08/05/2021 SOURCE: texasfarmbureau.org
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Corn/Maize, Rice, Soybeans, Sorghum, Agriculture US, Organic, Vegetables, Agriculture Global, Food/Nutrition, Gardening, Sustainability, Urban Farming,
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