The Executive Director of Nebraska’s sorghum groups says by adding sorghum to a crop rotation farmers can boost their bottom line.   

Nate Blum says following sorghum with other crops can increase yields as much as 8 percent. “And, that’s because of the larger root biomass of the sorghum. It leaves more organic material in the soil, and it helps break up disease and pest cycle, so a number of things there.”

He tells Brownfield the crop uses similar rates of nitrogen and fertilizer as corn, but it can reduce other input costs.

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