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...
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...
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....
A year ago we had a blog with a similar title and the initial comments were on the Chinese buying sorghum and creating a strong demand. That demand has not changed if you look at November 2022 sorghum bids. The new topic of discussion is the price of...
Sorghum Seed Treatments – An important and required buying decision. One of the decisions that growers must make when buying seed is choosing the appropriate seed treatment package. When you purchase seed from Sorghum Partners, you will have two or three options to choose from,...
New sorghum cropping solution for postemergence grass weed control Today, on the eve of the 2020 Commodity Classic, S&W Seed Company and ADAMA announced their intent to collaborate on the development of a new sorghum herbicide-tolerant system. This collaboration is expected to bring innovation to sorghum...