Mindy Ward
HIGH YIELDS: Grain sorghum producers saw impressive yields in 2020. The MU Variety Testing Program put more than 20 hybrids to the test in four locations across Missouri. Farmer interest brings grain sorghum trials back to the University of Missouri.
Grain sorghum, or milo, is not a top crop in Missouri. However, Mark Wieberg says results from this year’s MU Variety Testing Program may have farmers taking another look at this feed grain.
“It is one of those crops that costs less money to put in versus corn,” the University of Missouri senior research specialist responsible for MU’s Variety Testing Program says of grain sorghum. “And regardless of how wet or dry, you can knock a consistent yield off of it.”