400,000 farmers to go into sorghum production this year

400,000 farmers to go into sorghum production this year

May 16, 2019 Daily Trust Pour hundred thousand sorghum famers are to be mobilized for this year’s wet season farming. National Association of Sorghum Producers, Processors and Marketers of Nigeria (NASPPAM) made this known in a communiqué issued and signed by its...
Weathering the weather—options for haying, grazing and silage

Weathering the weather—options for haying, grazing and silage

May 15, 2019 High Plains Journal A wet fall, unusually cold temperatures, excess rain, and in some cases flooding, have cattle and sheep producers wondering how they will manage forage shortages this summer and lay in forages for next winter. “The good news is there...
Urban middle class may offer lifeline to rural Africa

Urban middle class may offer lifeline to rural Africa

14th May 2019 Brits in Kenya The rise of an urban middle class across much of Africa is stoking demand for food that could curb hunger and cut poverty in rural outposts, a U.S.-based think tank said on Wednesday. The International Food Policy Research Institute...
WV Culinary Team: Sorghum a sweet mountain staple

WV Culinary Team: Sorghum a sweet mountain staple

May 11 2019 Charleston Gazette-Mail Sorghum isn’t easy to come by in West Virginia. But it wasn’t always like that. The thick sweetener is derived from a cereal crop that was domesticated by Africa about 5,000 years ago and arrived in America with African slaves,...
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