A quarter-century ago, more than 2 million acres of milo were harvested in Nebraska. This year, early reports show there will be only 390,000 planted acres — a 29 percent ...

Some compare sorghum and corn as apples to apples when it comes to water use in the southern Plains; however, at the recent Red River Crops Conference, Jason Warren, Oklahoma State University ...

Soybean planted acreage was estimated at 4.60 million acres while sorghum was at 3.20 million acres, with sunflower coming in at 55,000 acres, oats at 100,000 acres, barley at 14,000 acres and ...

So that basically makes up for the difference in seed costs.” But in mid-July the basis for new crop sorghum and corn saw a $0.55 difference, Baldwin said, with sorghum having the advantage.

Milo eyed for ethanol production Sorghum can benefit farmers, the environment and the biofuels industry. BLAKE NICHOLSON Associated Press Aug 16, 2012 Aug 16, 2012; 0; Facebook ...

With farmers unable to plant corn this year, NuGen Energy is eager to take grain sorghum at its ethanol plant in Marion, South Dakota for the first time since 2016. “If they can get milo in the ...

Could sorghum be the next big thing on your dinner table or restaurant menu? Farmers who grow sorghum are starting to push for that amid a changing global landscape and tariff war. ... Milo sorghum ...

But sorghum's great virtue for farmers is the fact that it can thrive with so little water. ... "You've got white milo, red milo, yellow milo," says Henry, scanning the field.

This includes Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas. According to the Sorghum Checkoff Program, in 2018 farmers planted 5.7 million acres of sorghum and harvested 365 bushels.

It costs about $250 to grow an acre of sorghum. Nedbalek farms roughly 6,000 acres of land near Taft and Mathis with his sons, Jason, 46, Troy, 50. The family typically yields 4,000-to-6,000 ...