However, by planting sorghum instead of corn, Piñeiro said the seed cost alone is roughly 10 times less expensive and irrigation water use requirements for sorghum is about 30% lower than corn.

" Sterling delivers reliable grain and silage yields across dryland and supplementary irrigation with vigorous seedlings, ...

As for grain sorghum or milo, Rusche says it produces a crop that can substitute well for corn. The energy content of milo is usually about 85 percent of that for corn grain, which is usually ...

AMARILLO – Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service forage sorghum trials west of Amarillo provide a side-by-side comparison of varieties for farmers trying to meet increasing silage needs in the ...

On droughty soils in medium and long maturity zones, grain sorghum is an alternative worth considering. CALENDAR Call Lehigh County Cooperative Extension Office at 391-9840 for more information.

Sorghum has been grown for some 8,000 years, is now one of the top five cereal crops in the world, and has been a nutritional powerhouse long before science told us so.

Piñeiro and Duhatschek seeded three non-sterile sorghum hybrids—non-BMR F10; BMR12, F382, and F431; Richardson Seeds—and two male-sterile sorghum hybrids—Non-BMR, F465; and BMR12, F430.