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18 June 2024

Weed Control: Focus on Young Plants

  As the range of chemical options is shrinking, sorghum weed control becomes more complex. Regardless of the method, the key is to target the young weed plants, without, however, forgetting about mechanical cultivation. In France, the spring of 2024 will have been the last one in which producers were allowed to use S-metolachlor to […]

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18 June 2024

Vieille Graine Joins Sorghum ID

Vieille Graine joined the Sorghum ID association in early 2024. Created in 2022, the former has been developing a range of eight organic products, based on sorghum and millet, for food use. “After the dehulled kernels, the flours and the pastas, we intend to develop new specialties such as sorghum semolina or aperitifs” Aurélien Amir, […]

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27 March 2024

Sorghum at SIA (the Salon international de l’agriculture)

  In March 2024, Paris hosted the sixtieth edition of the SIA. The event saw more than 600 000 visitors interested in agriculture. Over one thousand French and worldwide exhibitors were present, including SEMAE, a French interprofessional organisation for seeds and seedlings, at the stand of which a sorghum conference was held. Variety Innovation, Industries, […]

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