Want to satisfy your goal of self-sufficiency and your sweet tooth? Consider growing sorghum, crushing the cane, and boiling it down into sorghum syrup. Sorghum is similar to sugarcane but can be ...

It can be made similarly to maple syrup in batch pans, or with a continuous flow pan for larger operations. Sweet sorghum syrup. To some, this liquid foodstuff is a bit of mystery. What is it? How is ...

Sorghum-related biofuels research is taking a localized approach, with the aim of making possible the effective production of ethanol in the farmer's own field. Sweet sorghum can be grown throughout ...

While sweet sorghum and sugarcane are close relatives, the researchers have shown that the two species have different ways of moving and storing sugar. Tracer sucrose is inserted into growing plants, ...

LUBBOCK — Sweet sorghum is grown in the U.S. for cooking and as livestock feed. But the tall plant also has a juicier benefit. A sugary sap inside the plant's stalk, which can grow as tall as 12 feet, ...

Much of the world is turning hotter and dryer these days, and it's opening new doors for a water-saving cereal that's been called "the camel of crops": sorghum. In an odd twist, this old-fashioned ...

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 ...

SWEETHEARTS: Doug and Barbara Harrell, pictured at Green Sage Café Westgate, grow and process sorghum on their family farm in Bakersville. They and Green Sage owner Randy Talley are promoting what ...