The problem comes when it's put under stress, and this is where sorghum really flies.
In Australia, western Argentina, India, places where moisture is a restriction, sorghum is the answer.
Cereals such as sorghum, millet and corn are now not available on the market, it said.
" From my perspective, both of these films were well done, especially "Red Sorghum.
She called Anderson and asked if Pioneer would help her foundation develop better sorghum for African farmers.
In Colombia drought has parched 5, 000 square kilometres of pasture and 2, 000 of maize, sorghum and soya.
The sorghum market simply wasn't big enough for Pioneer, says Paul Anderson, research director of DuPont crop genetics.
Pots are used for storing beer, fermenting sorghum meal, fetching water, cooking, ancestral worship and traditional healing rituals.
In Tanzania rainwater harvesting allows farmers to grow rice or vegetables instead of staples like sorghum and maize.
It developed Eagle, a beer made from cheaper, locally grown sorghum and negotiated a reduction in excise tax.
According to one report, the price of millet and sorghum rose to 75-80% above its average for the last five years.
He shot to fame in the late 1980s with a the successful Red Sorghum (1987) and Raise the Red Lantern (1991).
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SABMiller, which operates in 37 African countries, is trying to woo homebrew-lovers with sorghum and cassava beers that are consistently good.
Goal: a minimum of two sorghum harvests per year on every acre.
In the smokehouse, the shelves sagged with crocks of honey and sorghum.
The road ran northwest through fertile bottomland: sorghum, maguey, melons, mangoes, lemons.
SABMiller's Eagle, the world's first clear sorghum lager, launched in 2002 and brewed in Uganda, is already one of east Africa's best-selling beers.
Both of these policies have raised demand in the country for millet and sorghum, which provide alternative sources of flour as well as chicken-feed.
With sorghum, the ethanol distillery can put the bagasse (plant stalks) to use as a boiler fuel, generating heat for distillation and steam for electricity.
Pioneer agreed to further nutritional enhancements to the sorghum strain, to train African scientists, and to donate the know-how (and seeds) from its earlier work.
That, she figured, should boost prices for sorghum's upmarket cousin--corn--as well.
Commercial preparations of diatomaceous earth did as well as the organophosphate in all cases bar one (a beetle called the lesser grain borer in sorghum).
Instead of exploring the layers of meaning in the script, Ashford presents a stereotype of Williams all sorghum, chicory, and cornpone logic while, at the same time, trying to upstage him.
This time Haugerud's interest was whetted by a source in Australia who said a drought there was forcing the country to buy U.S. sorghum as a replacement for feed.
That poor Third World farmer out in the boonies gets more value from a weekly text telling him local sorghum prices than we do from gigabytes of web surfing.
In collaboration with Zimbabwe's Institute for Agricultural Engineering, she tested diatomaceous earth against a common organophosphate pesticide in three of Zimbabwe's regions, and on three crops: sorghum, maize and cowpeas.
Business negotiations in China have traditionally been conducted over meals accompanied by plenty of alcohol, and the fiery sorghum-based spirit baijiu remains a staple at state banquets and family reunions.
Five years ago Pioneer Hi-Bred International (a subsidiary of DuPont) figured out how to slide a critical gene from corn into sorghum to make a variant with more lysine--an essential amino acid.
Imported spirits make up about 2% of the Chinese alcohol market, with baijiu a white spirit distilled from sorghum, wheat or rice representing half of the country's alcohol sales, according to Euromonitor, a data provider.
They are so confident about their work that they believe the fungus technique could lead to small-scale industry in towns across Africa, where the spores could be grown on sorghum and rice flour.
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