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04 January 2021

Although Fluctuating, Sorghum Production Is Attractive to some Russian Growers

  “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

Europe: 5,62 tons/hectare in 2020

  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

Seed Supply up in 2021

  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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