17 October 2023
Under the aegis of GSA (Global Sorghum Association), the next world sorghum conference will be held in Lubbock, at Texas Tech University, in September, 2026. «We know that our community will continue to nurture the relationships they made in Montpellier and we look forward to strengthen them further in order to favour innovations and […]
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17 October 2023
Sorghum ID is a dynamic organisation whose membership has increased from one year to the next. Its members exchange their views and experience regularly, during specific meetings, steering committees, general assemblies «but distance limits us and our meetings are often just online» Valérie Brochet, the organisation’s representative said. «Which is why we wanted to […]
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17 October 2023
Right after the Cirad (Centre for International Cooperation in Agronomic Research focused on Development) announced that the second World Sorghum Conference will be held in France, Sorghum ID decided to work alongside the conference organisers. In addition to liaising with its members and taking part in the exhibition space, Sorghum ID, represented by Valérie […]
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17 October 2023
Each conference day started with a plenary session of an hour and a half, during which experts spoke on a given topic. Thus a whole variety of issues were discussed, such as climate change and drought tolerance, climate change and hybrid selection, market developments and the European production systems, cropping innovations and sustainable […]
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17 October 2023
Early in June this year, the second World Sorghum Conference took place in Montpellier, for five days. Focusing on the crop’s resilience and sustainability within the current climate change context, the exceptional event also discussed the whole value chain of sorghum and the industry’s major challenges. More than 400 members of the world sorghum […]
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07 July 2023
Thanks to its genetic diversity and the work of the European breeders, several sorghum varieties exist today that have high biomass yields: single-harvest feed sorghums, sweet sorghums, and biomass sorghums. Moreover, sorghum crops that are used for methane production do not contradict agriculture as a food provider, since biomass sorghum belongs to the CIVE […]
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07 July 2023
Successful weed control – especially when it comes to summer grasses – is one of the key stages in sorghum production. Seedbed preparation, providing good planting conditions, observing effective legislation, using different weed control strategies based on the different sorghum emergence stages, carrying out tests and analyzing the results; carrying out mechanical weeding – […]
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