Kansas farmers are worried about milo sales and how they will earn profits in diminished markets while the cost to farm continues to increase. (Getty Images) TOPEKA — Kim Barnes scoured 52 years of ...
Grain sorghum is called the water-sipping crop, a quality that endears it to many farmers in high-heat, low-moisture parts of the country. Unfortunately, that description applies to just about ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Don Bloss’ phone has been ringing more than usual lately. He has been getting calls from grain merchandisers and younger farmers, and they all want to talk about the same thing -- sorghum.
TAFT -- Bobby Nedbalek has been farming sorghum in Texas' Coastal Bend for nearly 60 years. And he's never seen a harvest quite like this. This year promised "outstanding" milo yields, with a ...
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 ...
COLLEGE STATION — Texas grain sorghum plantings are up by about 750,000 acres from last year because of several factors, a Texas AgriLife Extension Service expert. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...