WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Sweet sorghum is best known as a syrup poured over hot biscuits. But now a half-dozen Florida companies want to serve up the crop as a biofuel for creating ethanol. Its future ...

A team at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is exploring sweet sorghum ethanol as a future income source for dryland agriculture in western Nebraska. Sweet sorghum is a cultivar of sorghum primarily ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, United Sorghum Checkoff Program, Oklahoma Bioenergy Center and the South Central Sun Grant Program have taken note and funded the majority of the research of ...

This is one to take seriously. A deal has been made by Pioneer Hybrids, the corn seed company started by the Vice President back in one of Roosevelt’s terms, Henry A. Wallace who introduced hybrid ...

WASHINGTON — What's sweet like sugarcane, looks something like corn and could be grown in much of the United States to make ethanol? Sweet sorghum. American pioneers used sweet sorghum as a substitute ...

Sweet sorghum can be used to produce biogas, biofuels, and novel polymers. In addition, it can help replace phosphate fertilizers. A new sweet sorghum variety developed at Karlsruhe Institute of ...

In our earliest days of pioneer cooking and baking, the “big four” for forms of “sweet harvests,” which have provided sugar derivatives dating back to the days of the 13 colonies, are honey, maple ...

LITTLE ROCK — At the Grapevine Hunting Club in Grant County, Shelby Taylor and the other club members hunt deer - but they also have fun doing something unusual or historical nearly every hunting ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A corn-like plant that can grow as high as an elephant's eye on some of Earth's driest farmland shows promise as a "smart" biofuel that won't cut into world food supplies, an ...

Almost 40 years ago, residents of Montgomery County started recording the history of this rural area near Hot Springs. That group included Dick Whittington, whose ancestors helped settle the region.