Purdue study says grain sorghum has potential for midwestern farmers

June 24, 2012 |

In Indiana, an article regarding the Midwest’s capability for producing grain sorghum was published in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts, & Biorefining by researchers from Purdue, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of Illinois. The article argued that sorghum is more attractive to midwestern farmers for a number of reasons: the infrastructure and grain elevators are already in place and it only takes a short time for sorghum to mature, compared to the ten years or longer that miscanthus or switchgrass can take. The study comes in a series of studies looking at how bioenergy crops can be deployed in the agricultural landscape.

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