Continuous Cropping of Dryland Grain Sorghum

Dryland Performance of Sweet Sorghum and Grain Crops for Biofuel in Nebraska

No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. S weet sorghum is a sugar crop with biofuel potential and has been found to be competitive with corn for theoretical ethanol yield with less energy ...

Seeding Practices and Cultivar Maturity Effects on Simulated Dryland Grain Sorghum Yield

ett, 1999), planted early and at low populations; thus, relying on the sorghum hybrid to adapt to the growing Typical planting recommendations for dryland grain sorghum [Sorconditions by tillering. Research by Jones and Johnson ghum bicolor (L.) Moench] in the southern High Plains are to delay (1991, 1997) demonstrated that the optimum planting date, until soil water is adequate for crop establ...

Effect of nitrogen fertilization and cover cropping systems on sorghum grain characteristics.

Cover crop treatments and nitrogen (N) fertilization rates were investigated for their impact on sorghum grain quality attributes. Sorghum was planted in field plots treated with differing cover cropping systems and fertilization rates. The size (weight and diameter) and hardness of the kernels were influenced by both the cover crop and N rates. The protein content increased as the N rate incre...

Continuous Dryland Cropping in the Great Plains: What Are the Limits?

CROPPING SYSTEMS Evaluation of GPFARM for Dryland Cropping Systems in Eastern Colorado

than 90% were interested in using farm management decision support software (Frasier et al., 1997). The GPFARM is an ARS decision support system for strategic (longsame survey also showed that 57% of 219 producer term) planning. This study evaluated its performance for comparing alternative dryland no-till cropping systems and established limits of respondents were interested in a farm manageme...