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NUE sorghum varieties can help farmers who produce sorghum for feed or fuel

(05/02/2009)

Sorghum is an important feed crop that is grown on more than 100 million acres globally. In addition, sweet sorghum is a highly productive potential biofuel source. Like most grain crops, sorghum is extremely dependent upon nitrogen fertilizer to achieve attractive commercial yields. Also like most grain crops, it is an inefficient user of nitrogen—barely more than half of the nitrogen applied to sorghum fields is utilized for plant growth. As a ... [more]

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