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| | Sorghum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Insect and diseases are not prevalent in sorghum crops. | | | Grain Sorghum is usually planted with a commercial corn seeder at a depth of 2–5 cm, depending on the density of the soil (shallower in heavier soil). | | | Sorghum is a genus of about 20 species of grasses, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern Africa, with one species native to Mexico. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum
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| | Grain Sorghum (Milo) |
| | The grain sorghum crop can be harvested for high-moisture grain silage. | | | High moisture grain sorghum can be combined and ensiled when the grain is about 25-30% moisture. | | | Nearly all grain sorghum is harvested as a standing crop with a combine. |
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http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/sorghum.html
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| | Sorghum |
| | Sorghum starch is manufactured in the U.S. by a wet-milling process similar to that used for corn starch, then made into dextrose for use in foods. | | | Starch from waxy sorghums is used in adhesives and for sizing paper and fabrics, and is an ingredient in oil drilling "mud." The grain can be a source of grain and butyl alcohol. | | | Sorghum has a very hard kernel, which makes it resistant to disease and damage, butmaking it harder to digest for animals. |
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http://darwin.nmsu.edu/~molbio/plant/sorghum.html
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| | CyberSpace Ag: Kansas Crops |
| | Sorghum is a member of the grass family and a native wild plant of Africa. | | | The grain sorghum grown in Kansas is often called milo and the terms "grain sorghum" and "milo" are both used to describe the same crop. | | | Varieties of sorghums are classified into 4 groups: grain sorghums, grass sorghums, sweet sorghums, and broom corn. |
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http://www.cyberspaceag.com/kansascrops/grainsorghum/grainsorghumhistory.htm
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| | Sorghum-Forage |
| | Sorghum was grown primarily as a source of sugar for syrup until the settlement of the semiarid West created a demand for drought-resistant forage crops. | | | Where the sorghum is planted in rows, the nitrogen may be sidedressed when the crop is 8 to 16 in. | | | Sorghum and sorghum-sudangrass leaves and stems are coarse and high in moisture at time of harvest. |
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http://corn.agronomy.wisc.edu/AlternativeCrops/SorghumForage.htm
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| | CGIAR: Research & Impact: Areas of Research: Sorghum |
| | Sorghum, an important staple food crop in Africa, South Asia, and Central America, is the fifth major cereal crop in the world after wheat, rice, maize and barley. | | | Sorghum, which is particularly adapted to drought prone areas, is a crop of hot, semi-arid tropical environments with 400 - 600 mm rainfall-areas that are too dry for maize. | | | Historians believe that sorghum originated in North East Africa where a large variability in wild and cultivated species is still found today. |
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http://www.cgiar.org/impact/research/sorghum.html
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| | Sandhill Farm: FAQs about sorghum |
| | Sorghum is rotated with our other harvested crops such as soybeans and wheat, as well as with cover crops/green manure such as rye, vetch, and clover. | | | The Cultivation of Sorghum is certainly tied to the origins and evolution of African agriculture. | | | Sweet Sorghum, also called “sorgo,” differs from grain sorghum in that it is grown for its stalk. |
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http://sandhillfarm.org/sorghum_FAQs.html
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| | Sorghum genus |
| | Commercial sorghum pollinated by shattercane produces seed that is indistinguishable from commercial sorghum seed. | | | Contaminated commercial seed produces weedy and off-type sorghums that are distinguishable only when the crop matures to the flowering stage. | | | Unlike commercial sorghums, glumes tightly enclose seeds and can protect seeds from decomposition in the soil for several years. |
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http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/ipc/weedinfo/sorghum.htm
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| | Managing Insect and Mite Pests of Sorghum |
| | Sorghum is an important source of pollen for honey bees in many locations in Texas. | | | Sorghum is susceptible to aboveground insect pests throughout its growth and development. | | | The sorghum midge is one of the most damaging insects to sorghum in Texas. |
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http://entowww.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/b-1220.html
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| | Sweet Sorghum FAQs |
| | No, sorghum is a natural sweetener and can be treated just like honey. | | | The Department of Agriculture conducted numerous experiments on the extraction of sucrose from sorghum and on crystallization of sorghum syrup. | | | In the 1860's sorghum cultivation was concentrated in the Midwest, but by the 1890's it had become predominately a southern crop. |
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http://www.ca.uky.edu/nssppa/sorghumfaqs.html
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| | In the U.S., 44% of grain sorghum is for feed and residual, 43% is exported and 13% is used for food, seed and industrial purposes. | | | Just as forage sorghum acreage is expected to increase because of declining water resources and high water-pumping costs, NSP launched its Quality Hybrid Forage Program at the North American Grain Congress. | | | NSP will continue working to aid research developments for both grain and forage sorghums because of their future impact on producers' bottom lines. |
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http://www.sorghumgrowers.com/whatis.htm
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| | Sorghum stover is an important source of animal feed in mixed farming situations. | | | Challenges for genetic improvement of sorghum are in further developing and deploying resistance to the parasitic weed, Striga, and Anthracnose disease. | | | Although sorghum cultivation has become an important component of agriculture in various industrial countries, it remains largely a developing country crop. |
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http://www.africancrops.net/crops1/sorghum
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| | JGI - Why Sequence Sorghum? |
| | Sorghum is representative of the tropical grasses in that it has "C4" photosynthesis, using a complex combination of biochemical and morphological specializations resulting in more efficient carbon assimilation at high temperatures. | | | One of the world’s leading grain crops, sorghum is also an important model for tropical grasses of worldwide importance with a collective minimum economic impact of $69 billion U.S. per year. | | | As a model for the tropical grasses, sorghum is a logical complement to Oryza (rice), the first monocot plant to be sequenced. |
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http://www.jgi.doe.gov/sequencing/why/CSP2006/sorghum.html
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| | Harambee: Sorghum Helps Food Security |
| | Sorghum is indigenous to Kenya, but it lost favor with farmers when maize became the preferred food and preferred crop. | | | Sorghum is indigenous to Kenya, but production levels have fallen in recent years as maize became the preferred food crop. | | | During the dry period, when food was short, she mixed one bag of maize with two bags of sorghum to grind for food. |
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http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/iap/Harambee/04_Sorghum.html
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| | Sweet Sorghum Production |
| | Sorghum seed of varieties Dale, Topper 76-6, M81E, and Sugar Drip. | | | Sorghum seed of varieties Simon, Sugar Drip, Della, M81E, Topper 76-6 and Keller. | | | If you are having trouble with some of your sorghum turning to sugar, you need to get some invertase enzyme and add it after you have heated it up. |
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http://www.ca.uky.edu/nssppa/production.html
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| | Sorghum, Food Resource [http://food.oregonstate.edu/], Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR |
| | Herbicide, Herbicide, Benzoxazinone, Milo, Sorghum, Corn, Rye, Wheat, Oat, Barley | | | The lipid, water-soluble and starch fractions of grain sorghum were interchanged with those of wheat to identify the responsible component(s). | | | Grain sorghum is among the oldest of cereals and is the world's third most important food grain, exceeded only by rice and wheat. |
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http://food.oregonstate.edu/g/sorghum.html
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| | Cereal (Grain) Photos #1 |
| | Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), an important cereal grass native to Africa that ranks fourth after rice, corn, and wheat in terms of importance for human nutrition. | | | A healthy sorghum plant (Sorghum bicolor) growing in fertile soil. | | | Some grain sorghums are referred to as millet, but this term also refers to several other species of edible grasses, including Panicum milliaceum, Eleusine coracana, Eragrostis tef, and Pennisetum glaucum. |
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http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ecoph12.htm
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| | Sweet Sorghum R&D at NARI |
| | Since sorghum grain is the staple food grain in our part of India, further improvement in grain yield was attempted to get a dual-purpose crop giving high yields of grain and stem biomass. | | | Sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is the only crop that provides grain and stem that can be used for sugar, alcohol, syrup, jaggery, fodder, fuel, bedding, roofing, fencing, paper and chewing. | | | Unlike sugarcane, which is a tropical plant, sweet sorghum can be cultivated in nearly all temperate and tropical climatic areas. |
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http://nariphaltan.virtualave.net/sorghum.htm
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| | Move Over, Bossie! Sorghum's Not Just for Cows Anymore |
| | While sorghum has been part of the human diet in Africa and India for centuries, in the United States, the sorghum crop has been used mainly to feed livestock. | | | ARS chemist Scott R. Bean is looking for new uses for the versatile grain. | | | High in insoluble fiber too, specialty sorghum brans could become unrivaled sources of antioxidants in foods.—By Erin K. Peabody, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff. |
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http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/jun04/cows0604.htm
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| | MSUcares: Sorghum |
| | Mississippi growers planted 25,000 acres of grain sorghum in 2005 and produced an estimated 80 bushels per acre and 1.84 million bushels in 2005. | | | Sorghum also produces substantial long-term crop rotation benefits by improving soil physical properties. | | | Sorghum, soybeans and cotton grown in rotation systems consistently improve crop yields 10-20 percent compared to continuous cropping systems. |
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http://msucares.com/crops/sorghum
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| | sorghum |
| | Sorghums also provide cover crops and green manures, grain substitutes for many industrial processes that employ corn, and fuel and weaving material from the stems. | | | In the United States, sorghum is grown throughout the Great Plains area and in Arizona and California; about half the crop is used for forage and silage and half for feed grains. | | | from the cane juice; the broomcorns, yielding a fiber from the inflorescence that is used for making brooms; the grass sorghums (e.g., Sudan grass), used for pasture and hay; and the grain sorghums, e.g., durra, feterita, kaffir or kaffir corn, kaoliang, milo or milo maize, and shallu. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0845975.html
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| | Welcome To Sorghum Partners Inc Home Page |
| | Sorghum Partners, Inc. is a hybrid sorghum seed company. | | | Sorghum farmers in North America, South America, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia rely on Sorghum Partners, Inc. to supply the best sorghum genetics and high quality hybrid seed, and assist them with their search for the latest technical information to help make sorghum production profitable. | | | This web site is devoted entirely to helping sorghum farmers through better understanding of hybrid sorghum seed development, production, sales and marketing and sorghum farming. |
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http://www.sorghum-partners.com
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| | Sorghum is a major feed grain in the Southwestern part of the U.S. and is where the vast majority of the national milo production goes to. | | | Like most of the other grains, sorghum is low in gluten, but the seeds can be milled into flour and mixed with higher gluten flours or made into flat breads, pancakes or cookies. | | | Sorghum tends to have a thinner, slightly sourer taste than cane syrup. |
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http://gfrecipes.com/sorghum.txt
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| | PAN Pesticide Use Info for Sorghum |
| | Top 50 pesticides used on Sorghum, with information on the identity, use type and toxicity of each pesticide, as well as gross pounds used, application rate, acres planted, and number of applications. | | | Regional Use for All Chemicals on Sorghum in 2003 | | | Top 50 Pesticides Used on Sorghum in California in 2003 |
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http://www.pesticideinfo.org/DS.jsp?sk=29131
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| | Sorghum Anthracnose Diseases |
| | It provides a brief introduction to sorghum, its history, evolution and domestication; information on the anthracnose pathogen, its impact on sorghum production, and the relationship between the anthracnose pathogen and the sorghum plant. | | | This allows their accumulation and distribution in plant tissue to be followed using light microscopy. | | | In the introduction you will find information on the history, taxonomy, evolution and domestication of sorghum. |
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http://www.sorghumanthracnose.org
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| | Welcome to Pickett's Sorghum |
| | Pickett's farm is located about a half mile west of U.S. 31on 236th Street in Sheridan, Indiana. | | | Pickett's company has spanned over 5 generations and has just completed it's 90th year producing sorghum. | | | Pickett's Autumn Gold Sorghum was founded in 1913 by Robert Warren Pickett. |
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http://www.pickettsorghum.com
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| | SorghumDB Home Page |
| | Research: Please select this form to contribute information on sorghum genetics, interactions, and other observations. | | | Metabolism: Please select this form to contribute information on sorghum biochemistry, metabolic pathways, and molecular biology. | | | Colleague: If you are involved in sorghum research, we would like to include you in the database. |
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http://algodon.tamu.edu/sorghumdb.html
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