News

22 October 2020

Sorghum in Italy: Now, a Major Crop

  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

Geolocating Jimsonweed in Sorghum Fields

  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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22 October 2020

Webinars and Ag Fairs: Sorghum ID Continues Its Meetings

  December 1st: Webinar in Hungary Since the conference that had been scheduled for Budapest on October 16th, 2020 together with the French-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce was cancelled, another meeting will be held on December 1st. The event will have a “mixed format”: it will be open to the people who will be able to […]

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