What Is Sorghum – Information About Sorghum Plants{
By Amy Grant
Have you ever heard of sorghum plants? At one time, sorghum was an important crop and served as a sugar substitute for many people. What is sorghum and what other interesting sorghum grass information can we dig up? Let’s find out.
What is Sorghum?
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What Is Sorghum – Information About Sorghum Plants
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Grown in Egypt more than 4,000 years ago, growing sorghum grass seed ranks as the number two cereal crop in Africa, producing more than 20 million tons per year, one third of the world's total.
Sorghum can be ground, cracked, steam flaked and / or roasted, cooked like rice, made in porridge, baked in bread, dipped as corn and malt for beer.
In the United States, sorghum is mainly grown for forage crops and feed grains. Varieties of grain sorghum include:
Durra
Feterita
Kaffir
Kaoliang
Milo milo or corn
Shallu
Sorghum can also be used as cover harvest and green manure, substitutes for certain industrial processes that commonly used grain and the stems are used as fuel and weaving material.
Very little of the sorghum that is grown in the US is sweet sorghum, but at one point it was a thriving industry. Sugar was dear in the mid 1800's, so people turned to syrup sorghum to sweeten their food. However, making sorghum syrup is very labor-intensive and has fallen out of favor instead of other crops, such as corn syrup.
Sorghum contains iron, calcium and potassium. Prior to the invention of daily vitamins, doctor prescribed daily dose of sorghum syrup for people suffering from diseases related to deficiencies in these nutrients.
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