14 May 2025
The year 2024 was not at all smooth sailing, to French sorghum producers. From planting through harvest, weather conditions complicated the crop’s development. A look back to a production year that had a lot of lessons to learn from. With almost 125 000 hectares – of which 35 000 for feed production -, France’s […]
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18 June 2024
As soon as he created his company, in 2016, Eudes Coutté set out to turn his 110-hectare farm into an economically-stable enterprise. The need for crop diversification became self-evident relatively fast. He therefore included sorghum among its crops – along with its multiple markets. Eudes Coutté takes care of the processing and marketing of his […]
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18 June 2024
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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02 March 2022
February comes to an end and springtime is near. It is time for us to choose the varieties that we will plant. Hybrid choice is crucial for a successful sorghum harvest and it allows one to adjust the crop to the specific soils, climate, and planting dates of a given region. Disease tolerance, tannin content, […]
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22 September 2021
Sorghum has a reputation of high tannin levels. This is an image handicap, as the presence of tannin in animal feed is a significant anti-nutritional factor for monogastrics. Indeed, it was prove than even 1% tannin lowered by 7% the energy value of sorghum with pigs and 11% with poultry. But European sorghum do […]
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10 March 2021
Dr. Walter A.J. de Milliano is a pioneer of sorghum made in the Netherlands, where he has been cultivating sorghum for twenty years. In 2020, he decided to extend his testing surfaces to France in order to measure sorghum yield potentials in this area. “Climate change has an impact on precipitation level which has […]
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22 August 2019
Let’s take the case of a short rotation, based mainly on winter crops such as rapeseed, wheat and winter barley (a classic rotation in France in the Center, Burgundy or Poitou Charente). In this situation, the introduction of sorghum results in longer rotations. This is because sorghum is a “real” spring crop, which is sown […]
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21 August 2019
The objectives of summer cover crops are mainly to cover the soil quickly, produce sufficient biomass to feed the soil and avoid the escape of nitrates to the groundwater. For a succesful sorghum cover, several techniques are possible: – direct sowing, very soon after harvest to take advantage of soil moisture, – sowing after stubble […]
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21 August 2019
Sorghum grown from European genetics and production is the guarantee of a rigorous selection and excellent quality of seeds. Results: it is productive, profitable, sustainable and offers many outlets. We have to advertise it! This is done with the “star-sorghum” name that will be found in all of Sorghum ID’s communications. And as a […]
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04 July 2019
Sorghum is a hardy species that is generally not exposed to pests. Although most often the pest pressure remains low and does not justify intervention, some parasitic attacks can occur, especially in high temperature conditions. You will find below the different pests that can be found in vegetation on sorghum: Borer insects : Sesamia […]
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