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 Cereal Grain Crops

Common Name:

 Sorghum

Latin Name:

 Sorghum bicolor

Variety:

 NC+ 5B74E

Crop Origin:

 India or Africa

Type:

 Annual grain

Date Planted:

 24 May, 2005

Growth Stages in Ohio

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January February March April May June
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July August

September

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Cultivation in Ohio

Primary Uses:

 Grain

 Planting:

 Plant one week after the recommended date for corn in 30 inch or narrower rows using a corn planter with special plates.  

 Seeding Rate:

 8-12 lb/acre

Fertility:

 In medium range soil, apply between 75 and 150 lb/acre of N for grain production.  P rates are 20 lb/acre when banded and 40 when broadcast.  K should be applied at about 40 lb/acre.

Insects:

 Billbugs, sugarcane beetle, billing larvae, southern corn rootworm, white grubs, wireworms, corn root aphid, cutworms, seedcorn maggot, chinch bug, corn leaf aphid, spider mites, European corn borer, armyworm, sorghum midge maggot

Diseases:

  

Harvest:

 Harvest with a grain combine when seed moisture is 26 percent or less.  Adjust machine accordingly to avoid seed loss.

Comments:

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Identification

Leaf:

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Flower:

 Sorghum flower1.JPG (2273064 bytes)

Seeds:

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Distribution:

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More Information

Links:

 http://ohioline.osu.edu/b472/altern.html
http://ipm.ncsu.edu/AG271/corn_sorghum/corn_sorghum.html

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/crops/00540.html