Sorghum production

The chinch bug, Blissus leucopterus leucopterus (Say), is another serious pest of cereals, threatening grain sorghum production primarily in the tallgrass prairie regions of the Midwest. 

Benefits of Triazine Herbicides in Corn and Sorghum Production... 

Atrazine is the key herbicide facilitating ecofallow corn and sorghum production in the semi-arid Great Plains, where crop production is often uncertain and profits to farmers are often marginal. The success of atrazine in ecofallow is attributable to its duration of weed control as a soil-applied herbicide, the broad spectrum of weeds controlled, the low cost per area treated, and its safety to crops. In this semi-arid environment, maintaining weed-free fallow with repeated applications of nonresidual herbicides is not an economically viable alternative to atrazine. 

Phillips, W.M. (1969). Dryland sorghum production and weed control with minimum tillage. Weed Sci., 17 451-454. 

Freeman JE. In Wall JS, Ross WM, eds. Sorghum Production and Utilization. Connecticut, Westport Avi 1970 28. 

Three separate and distinct methods have been utilized for the determination of aconitic acid in sugar cane and/or sorghum products. One involves the extraction of aconitic acid from the sample with an organic solvent, the second is based upon the decarboxylation of aconitic acid while the third employs the polarographic technique.5 ... 

Comparison of sorghum production area of 1974 and 2000 Individual farmers... 

Figure 4 Area of maize and sorghum production in eastern and western Hararghe weredas identified for sorghum production threatened by maize. Data source Bureau of Agriculture for western and eastern Hararghe.

Figure 5 Shaded weredas indicate sorghum production threatened by maize. In particular the cold-tolerant sorghums are threatened by maize in Gerawa, Kurfachelle, Bedeno, Gorogutu, Messela, Alemaya, Kombolcha and Jarso. The Bedeno, Girawa, Jarso, Melkabello, Messela and Deder weredas are where high altitude sorghum production has been partly replaced by maize...

The dH of sorghum is important nutritianaly, and n influencas flavor and acceptability of sorghum products. 

Table S-9 presents in summary form the use of sorghum products for human food.

The United States, Nigeria, India and Sudan are the largest sorghum growers. Annual sorghum production in the United States was about 12 million tonnes in 2008. 

Awika, J.M., Dykes, L., Gu, L., Rooney, L.W., and Prior, R.L. 2003. Processing of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and sorghum product alters procyanidin oligomer and polymer distribution and content J. Agric. Food Chem. 51 5516—5521. 

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