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Sorghum Midge: Implications for Kansas Grain Sorghum

November 7, 2018 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: Kansas State University Extension

Kansas State University Extension shares some important control suggestions for the sorghum midge, which caused widespread damage to grain sorghum crops this year in a break with past precedent.

No-Till Practices Fix Land, Labor and Profitability

Kansas grower Roger Black says quitting the plow for no-till improved his soils, allowed expansion with adding machinery and bolstered his custom enterprise income.

By Dan Crummett posted on August 16, 2018 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment, Water Management

When Roger Black switched to no-tilling in south-central Kansas more than two decades ago, he was searching for ways to reduce erosion in his silty-loam bottomland fields, as well as reduce fuel and labor costs.

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EPA Nod for Sorghum Oil is Great News for Growers

July 26, 2018 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

The EPA has approved sorghum oil as an eligible feedstock under the Renewable Fuel Standard, a significant step toward leveling the playing field for ethanol plants extracting oil from sorghum.

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No-Till Diversity Sustains Family Farm, Improves the Land

By John Dobberstein posted on June 28, 2018 | Posted in Soil Health, Water Management

Oklahoma no-tiller Jimmy Kinder, recently given the Leonard Wyatt Memorial Outstanding Cooperator Award, is not only finding success with his own diversified farm but working with fellow farmers to help them achieve their financial, production, stewardship and quality-of-life goals.

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Numbers Don’t Add Up on Tillage and Sorghum

By John Dobberstein posted on January 10, 2018 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Water Management

The results are in for the National Sorghum Producers Yield Contest and we’ll see how no-tilled submissions stacked up against conventional and reduced tillage. I think you’ll like what the data show.

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Good News for Sorghum Growers

By John Dobberstein posted on December 28, 2017 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

For those looking for an opportunity to put grain sorghum into their rotation or get more value out of their current crop, there’s good news finally.

Insights Gleaned from This Year’s Grain Sorghum Crop

November 8, 2017 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Josh Lofton, cropping systems specialist at Oklahoma State University Extension, shares some lessons learned this year about the grain sorghum crop that you can put to use in the next growing season.

Controlling Annual Weeds with Fall-Applied Herbicides

October 24, 2017 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: Kansas State University

Getting ahead of corn and grain sorghum by using fall herbicides to control difficult winter annuals.

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What Cover Crops Can Do for Your Grain Sorghum

By John Dobberstein posted on September 13, 2017 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management

Studies about cover crops from many of the semi-arid Great Plains have been cautionary or conditional, owing to potential concerns about soil moisture or nutrient use from covers seeded ahead of cash crops.

Planting Sorghum Early Could Help Reduce Sugarcane Aphid Damage

September 27, 2016 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Crop Protection

Source: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

Adjusting to earlier planting dates for sorghum could help growers get the crop emerged and cut before potential sugarcane aphid damage is heaviest, says Texas A&M AgriLife Extension entomologist Ed Bynum.

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Articles Tagged with ''grain sorghum''

Sorghum Midge: Implications for Kansas Grain Sorghum

No-Till Practices Fix Land, Labor and Profitability

EPA Nod for Sorghum Oil is Great News for Growers

No-Till Diversity Sustains Family Farm, Improves the Land

Numbers Don’t Add Up on Tillage and Sorghum

Good News for Sorghum Growers

Insights Gleaned from This Year’s Grain Sorghum Crop

Controlling Annual Weeds with Fall-Applied Herbicides

What Cover Crops Can Do for Your Grain Sorghum

Planting Sorghum Early Could Help Reduce Sugarcane Aphid Damage

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