04 January 2021
Run by the FNPSMS (France) and the PZPK (Poland), the campaigns will promote the benefits of maize and sorghum, as well as the agronomic complementarity of the two crops. The campaigns are also aimed at bringing the high-quality genetics of European maize and sorghum seeds to the forefront. The programmes will take place differently […]
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04 January 2021
In France November 12: Press conference on Sustainable Biomass Production and Its Role for Bioeconomy. Sorghum ID took part in a press conference alongside the BFF (Biomass for the Future) association. BFF aims to optimise the production of lignocellulosic biomass from Miscanthus and sorghum and thus help attain “the zero CO2 emissions by 2050” target […]
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04 January 2021
“If I were to plot sorghum production in Russia, it would be a sinusoid”, Artem Gorelov explains as an introduction. The figures confirm it: between 2002 and 2010, grain sorghum areas fluctuated between 20 000 and 50 000 hectares, “which is nothing at the scale of our country”, he points out. Then during 2011-2016, […]
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04 January 2021
In the EU, grain and feed sorghum areas have increased by 18 percent in 2020: up 20 percent and up 12 percent, respectively. This rising trend has equally been witnessed in Eastern European countries such as Russia and Ukraine, indicating the producers’ growing interest in this crop, whose resilience to adverse weather is a […]
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22 October 2020
Sorghum production has increased steadily in Europe, influencing the configuration of the seed market. In 2019/20, the available seed supply limited the development of the sorghum industry, at times. This is why the seed market actors have increased their planted areas strongly, for the 2020/21 season. The increase is estimated at 59 percent at […]
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22 October 2020
When Daniel Grandis started his career with KWS in 2011, sorghum was already a catalogue product, especially biomass sorghum. As to grain sorghum, its development took off in 2014. To-date, the experienced agronomist is Product Manager for hybrid crops, covering southern Europe and Turkey. “I am in charge with a wide area, but as […]
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22 October 2020
Farmers regard jimsonweed as a competitor species to their crops. However, it is its toxicity that they fear most, since its grains, stalks, and leaves contain strong alkaloids (scopolamine, atropine, and hyoscyamine), which may prove dangerous even at low levels. Jimsonweed presence in the harvested crops must remain below a threshold that has been […]
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