Sorghum’s uptake in dairy rations has continually grown, but the crop's limiting factors have laid hurdles for those who desire to partially replace corn silage in the diet while promoting water use savings. The team at Texas A&M University recently developed a means to control and even avoid some of those former challenges with the new male sterile sorghum variety.
Reach new fiber heights with male sterile sorghum
Unlike the sorghum pictured, the male sterile plant develops the hat, but because there is no pollination, it doesn’t further advance into the later stages of maturity that include grain development.
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