Overview
Sorghum has a variety of uses including food for human consumption, feed grain for livestock and industrial applications such as ethanol production. The area planted to sorghum worldwide has increased by 66 percent over the past 50 years while yield has increased by 244 percent. Around half of the sorghum produced is fed to livestock and half is consumed by humans and used in other applications. October 2005 . . . General Sorghum
- Economic Issues with Grain Sorghum, Kansas State University, 2002 - This publication describes how corn and sorghum compare in Kansas and the United States through the past two decades.
- National Sorghum Producers
- National Sweet Sorghum Producers and Processors Association - This organization provides a means of communication among sweet sorghum producers and processors concerning common interests in cane production, harvesting, transporting, crushing, processing, and marketing.
- Riding Out the ‘Perfect Storm’ of 2007, Feed and Grain magazine, 2008 - This article examines the market situations of grain sorghum and wheat in 2007 and the outlook for 2008. While prices for sorghum were not as strong as wheat, its commodity value has doubled from 2005 to today.
- Sorghum, U.S. Grains Council - A private, nonprofit corporation that develops export markets for sorghum as well as for barley and corn.
- USDA Grain and Oilseed Reports - National report on weekly markets.
Production
- Grain Sorghum, Chapter 5, Interactive Agronomy Handbook, University of Illinois.
- Grain Sorghum Production, Chapter 10: Alternative Crops, Ohio Agronomy Guide, 14th Edition, Ohio State University Extension, 2005.
- Grain Sorghum Production Handbook, Kansas State University Research and Extension, 1998.
- Growing Sweet Sorghum for Syrup, University of Georgia, 1999 - Discusses the labor and processes involved.
- Production of Sweet Sorghum for Syrup in Kentucky, University of Kentucky, 1987.
- Sorghum, Alabama Cooperative Extension System.
- Sorghum: Commercial Types, Lost Crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains, 1996.
- Sorghum, The National Non-Food Crops Centre, Heslington, York, UK.
- Sorghum Dyes, Lost Crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains, 1996.
- Sorghum Syrup, ATTRA, 2003 - This publication discusses some of the equipment and facilities that can be used in sorghum syrup production.
- Sweet Sorghum Production and Processing, Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, 1992 - This 93-page manual is a practical handbook on everything a farmer needs to know about sorghum growing and processing. The manual can be purchased for $12.
Businesses/Case Studies
- Maasdam Sorghum Mills, Lynnville, Iowa - This family business has processed sorghum since 1926. A steam engine powers the mill and augers. They can produce 600 gallons of sweet sorghum a day during September.
- Twin Valley Mills, Ruskin, Nebraska - This small mill owned and operated by three grain sorghum producers converts food-grade sorghum into grain sorghum flour.
Links checked January 2008.
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