Occasionally there can be a need to use a harvest aid on grain sorghum. The crop usually is left to terminate and senesce naturally from either the plant maturing out or by a killing freeze. The main ...

Any farming decision is a gamble, but grain sorghum’s basis was too tasty for Hunter Byrd to ignore in 2015. With the numbers penciling out to good profit, the 27-year-old Dundee, Miss., producer took ...

With all crops, when to terminate irrigation at the end of the season can be a challenging question. For sorghum growers, the answer requires a look at a sorghum plant’s late-season water needs as it ...

Ear to the ground, Kent Winter knew an army of millions was set to roll across his Kansas farm. In late July 2015, the invasion began. A wave of white sugarcane aphids settled across his grain sorghum ...

As with any crop, getting started off right often can mean the difference between raising a successful crop or coming up a little short of expectations. Planning for either full- season or even double ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. - The combination of poor margins for row crops and the threat of continued dry conditions are prompting many producers to re-evaluate cropping plans. Warren Rusche, South Dakota State ...

I’ve been on the farm since I could walk. It’s been a great life so far. It’s a true family operation that stretches back five generations. My brother is farming with me, along with my dad, uncle and ...

"Because of good grain prices, the instability of the cotton market, and drought conditions, lots of growers in Texas are choosing to grow grain sorghum this year," he said. "We'd expect to have well ...

Much of the world is turning hotter and dryer these days, and it's opening new doors for a water-saving cereal that's been called "the camel of crops": sorghum. In an odd twist, this old-fashioned ...

Ramon Klassen has cut sorghum on his land in Inman for 42 years. Growing up, he watched his father cutting the same fields knowing someday he also would harvest them. During the last week of November, ...