The life of the sorghum plant begins when the seed imbibes water. This starts a chain of chemical reactions that drives the growth and development of the plant, culminating in a panicle containing ...

Last month’s column focused on the early life of the sorghum plant from emergence to the boot stage, or to put it in a human perspective from infancy through the teenage years. This article discusses ...

Grain sorghum is a grass plant crop grown for food grain, animal feed, the production of alcoholic beverages, and biofuels. It is an important crop worldwide, as most varieties are drought-resistant ...

Pilot programs are already underway to test how crops and solar panels can coexist outside of controlled scientific ...

Roughly two decades ago, sorghum producers began asking for a product that would control in-season grasses. This year, they finally received an answer in the form of three new herbicide-tolerant ...

URBANA, Ill. - Weeds often emerge at the same time as vulnerable crop seedlings and sneak between plants as crops grow. How do farmers kill them without harming the crops themselves? Seed and chemical ...

Thanks to increased export demand, solid prices and new technology for weed control, U.S. farmers are planting more grain sorghum in 2021. Total U.S. sorghum acres are projected to reach 6.91 million ...

You can tell by the headline on this article that, yes, I am a kinder, more gentle Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service area agronomist. It wasn’t 15 years ago I would tell producers to kill their ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BISMARCK, N.D.—The federal government is on the verge of approving a grain mainly used as livestock feed to make a cleaner version of ethanol, a decision ...

There are countless ways to use this delicious and sustainable superfood. If you're looking for some new ways to shake up your meals, try sorghum. What is sorghum you might ask? It's a grain like ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University researchers have confirmed the long-held hypothesis that sorghum deters insects from feeding on its leaves by releasing hydrogen cyanide. Mitch Tuinstra and ...