For many of us, in this first half of 2023, we have either seen the drought of 2022 be relieved, or we have continued to suffer. Regardless, it’s a sure bet that hay is hard to find – whether it be on your farm or...
A Year To Forget Crop protection availability and drought made 2022 a year to forget. It seems like it has a lot of growers still on the fence on choosing what to grow in 2023. Corn yields have not increased over the past five or ten...
Why you should be growing sorghum in 2023 Written By: Scott Staggenborg PhD It seems like I’ve written or spoke about “Why you should grow sorghum next year” every year over the past two decades. There’s a handful of reasons for this I suspect, the first is...
Late July and early August bring a lot of important events like county fairs, last minute vacations before school starts, and late season insects in sorghum. Recently the two that seem to be showing up the most are sugarcane aphids and headworms. As a quick...
Drought causes feed shortages. Growers turn to sorghum. Drought has forced livestock producers in the Western United States to use up a majority of their hay. Livestock producers often count on hay being available in other parts of the country to fill in if forage supplies...
Double Team Sorghum – The perfect tool after abandoned wheat When dry weather forces you to abandon your wheat acres, being ready to plant the next crop when the drought is over is front of mind. Double Team Sorghum is an excellent tool to use in...
A Drought Fighting Tool For Farmers “It’s often too dry here for our pre-emerge herbicides to work” was what I was told by a Southwest Kansas grower many years ago when I asked him why he did not plant more grain sorghum. That comment stuck in...
1971 was “The Year of Sorghum” because there were over 20 million acres of sorghum were planted in the U.S. Sorghum acres declined steadily after that because greenbugs showed up and had a big impact on sorghum yields and acres for nearly a decade. Sorghum...
Selecting a Sorghum Hybrid Hybrid and variety selection is one of the most important decisions that growers make. We often focus on yield when selecting a sorghum hybrid and face it, we should because that is what matters. However, do we ever think about how we...
Why you should be growing Herbicide Tolerant Sorghum in 2022 Herbicide tolerant crops have been with us since the late 1990s in most major row crops, so we will assume everyone understands the benefits of these technologies in the market for corn, soybeans, and other crops....