Sweet Sorghum Seeds (17 posts)

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  • tbelliard said 3 years, 5 months ago:

    Hope all are doing well. I am looking for Sweet Sorghum seeds to run experimental fields, and test performance in the Dominican Republic, can anyone help me find suppliers? I would need about 5 Kgs of each variety/hybrid available. Thanks.

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  • tbelliard said 3 years, 5 months ago:

    Hi all, thanks a lot to those who have contacted me regardimg my request, hope to hear from many more of you in the upcoming days. I am looking for seeds of the Keller variety, does anyone have any idea where or how I could obtain them? thanks.

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  • Denis Picco said 3 years, 5 months ago:

    dear Belliard,
    I hope that in this Community you should have the possibility to find contacts about sweet sorghum seed supply for your cultivation trials.
    As you can see in another forum, Mr. Pardo offer seeds of new varietis for free trials. Please try to contact him directly or ask us to give the right connection way. And of course, at the end, give us your final considerations!
    Thanks, Denis

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  • tbelliard said 3 years, 5 months ago:

    Thanks Denis, I already contacted Mr. Pardo, and also another person from Spain that is willing to help. The one thing I have not been answred is about the Keller seeds, if you have any idea where to get them please let me know.

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  • braconnier said 3 years, 5 months ago:

    Dear Tomy,

    I work in CIRAD (France) an international centre working on development of agriculture in tropical zone. I am also the coordinator of SWEETFUEL (a FP7 project) and of S3F for Haïti project which aims at developing a dual purpose sweet sorghum in Haïti for food and fuel. We can provide you with 50 to 100gr of Keller variety that you will be able to multiply.
    But evaluating other varieties would be of great interest for you if you want to develope sweet sorghum in Dominican Republic. Currently there is no “sweet” varieties that were breeded specifically for this trait (sugar content), but we hope that SWEETFUEL will soon be able to recommend new material.

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  • tbelliard said 3 years, 5 months ago:

    Dear Serge,

    I really appreciate your contact, as you say, we are interested in testing any hybrid or variety we can, so whenever you have any material available, we are open to test them in our project. Anytime you visit to Haiti, feel free to contact me in case you want to visit our projrct too, we are located right across the borderline in the northern side of the island.

    Please let me know your email to coordinate the shipment of the Keller seeds. Thanns again for your support.

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  • braconnier said 3 years, 5 months ago:

    You can touch me at
    [email protected]

    serge

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  • Luca Venturini said 3 years, 5 months ago:

    Dear Guys
    I’m working in a new company and we are selling a product for sorghum. It increse the growing of root of about 700%, water absorption, and increase the production of grain by 30%.
    Maybe someone of you know the azospirillum. Our product contain 2*10^9 CFU if azospirillum and the expiry date is of 2 year.
    Our product is one of the best of the world in matter of quality and duration. We have the iso 9001 certificate and For sorghum only 200g of product can mixed with 50Kg of seeds. But the pricipal benefit is to forget the use of nitrogen.
    If you want know more contact me
    [email protected] ,
    I’ll glad to answer you and maybe send 3/4 package.

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  • Denis Picco said 3 years, 4 months ago:

    Dear Venturini,
    it could be interesting to share with the Community some results about the work and the experiences that you have done in the past with sorghum or other crop using your product.
    The sustainability of a energy crop is mandatory and the use of a right cultivation tecnique (with low energy requirements, as water and nitrogen use) is really important.
    So, we are waiting for your news.

    regards
    Denis

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  • Denis Picco said 3 years, 4 months ago:

    Dear Serge,
    dear all,
    this topic is perfect for your work and your project SWEETFUEL, I supposed! the development of new sorghum varieties, adapted for the cultivation in different pedoclimatic and social conditions is the base for the creation of a new energy model.
    Besides, with this forum and this contacts, the Community achieves one of its most important target: create direct connection between people interested in the development of the sweet sorghum bioethanol chain.
    We are on the right way!

    Regards
    Denis

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  • Luca Venturini said 3 years, 4 months ago:

    Dear Picco
    All the data are available on the webpage :
    http://www.hapy.it/Sorgo.html .
    (the site will soon translate in english)
    The graphs you see are the average of a lot of studies conducted in Uruguay, by University of Montevideo and rio Cuarto,by AS.IN.AGRO (asesoramento e investigation agronomica), by ministery of agricultural in Uruguay,and in Italy by University of basilicata,by CRA (Forage Crops Research Institute), and others Intitutes.

    The beneficial effects of bacteria, which can be found in our products are well known to the scientific community
    We started with excellent results in sales throughout South America, I work for the European side but we can reach every part of the world

    If someone is intersted in our product contact me.

    regards

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  • Denis Picco said 3 years, 3 months ago:

    Dear members,
    dear all,

    a great question for you. We are always talking about sweet sorghum as an energy crop (biofuels, biogas, etc.). But sweet sorghum could be used also for other aspects, as feed. And, in a broader vision the Sorghum bicolor specie could be use for food (grain sorghum) or feed (sweet sorghum, fiber sorghum) or other uses (energy, fiber production, etc.).
    The question is, how can we find the right way to identify sweet sorghum as non-food crop (in case of no seed production), as giant reed or kenaf? Or this multipurpose specie is impossible to catalogue as a exclusive food or energy crop? How we can establish that sweet sorghum is different from fiber sorghum? How can we establish that sweet sorghum is different from grain/forage sorghum?
    The debates is open…

    Denis

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  • Denis Picco said 3 years, 3 months ago:

    Dear members,
    dear all,

    I would like to add this short communication about the develop of new sorghum seed varieties in USA. It could be interesting.

    Land O’Lakes subsidiary Winfield Solutions and Chromatin join forces to develop and market forage sorghum seed

    Minneapolis, MN. and Chicago, IL August 1, 2025 - Today Winfield Solutions LLC, a subsidiary of Land O’ Lakes and a leader in providing inputs to agricultural markets, and Chromatin, Inc., a privately held provider of innovative crop breeding technology, sorghum seed products and energy crop feedstocks, announced they have joined forces to market and develop forage sorghum hybrids
    Under the agreement, Winfield Solutions will partner with Chromatin and its subsidiary, Sorghum Partners, LLC, to provide and develop market leading hybrid forage sorghum seed products that will be marketed and distributed through the Winfield Solutions network of customers in North America. In addition, the agreement calls for Chromatin and Sorghum Partners to provide Winfield Solutions with access to its diverse and expanding portfolio of proprietary sorghum lines, and to develop, test and produce forage sorghum hybrids that meet the needs of customers and dealers
    “This alliance will leverage our ongoing breeding, technology development and seed production programs that focus on providing industry-leading forage sorghum,” said Jeff Widder, Chromatin’s VP of Seeds and manager of Sorghum Partners, LLC. “We will work with Winfield Solutions to expand our portfolio of forage sorghum products and to access new market channels”.
    “Growing high-value forages is our number one objective every day,” said Ricky Rice, Manager of Winfield Solutions’ Forage Sorghum business. “Our alliance with Chromatin will enable us to focus on our customers’ needs, while providing access to leading products and technologies”.
    Through this alliance, Winfield Solutions and Chromatin will collaborate to access and improve various types of forage sorghum, including traditional forage sorghum, sudan grass, sorghum-sudan grass hybrids and sweet sorghums. These forage crops allow growers to produce highly nutritious feed for grazing, hay, green chop or silage while requiring less water and fewer inputs than other livestock feeds.

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  • braconnier said 3 years, 3 months ago:

    Dear Denis, dear all,

    You can find some “sweet”, “grain”, “fiber”, “biomass”… sorghum varieties, but the characteristic of each of them is not exclusive: for example all varieties of sorghum are able to accumulate some sugar in their stalks as well as most of varieties can produce grain. But the ratio changes from one to another variety. And some of them are able to accumulate high amount of sugar in their stalks while producing grains.
    Sweet sorghum may be identify as a non-food crop according to its uses. In the case of Brazil where currently the objective is to complement sugar cane production, grain production is secondary and is not included in the process as panicules are not harvested and left on the ground. In addition, the bagasse resulting from the juice extraction is burnt to produce electricity. We can then consider sweet sorghum only as an energy crop.

    But in most other tropical countries where there is no sugar cane industry, sweet sorghum will be used as a multi-purpose crop (grain for food or feed, leaves for feed, juice for alcohol or syrup, syrup for alcohol or food industry, bagasse for feed or fertilizer or cogeneration).

    In Europe, if we anticipate the 2nd generation processes, sweet sorghum or sorghum is only an energy crop.

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  • Louis le Roex said 3 years, 1 month ago:

    Dear Serge,
    we are initiating a small scale sweet sorghum to ethanol project in South Africa; our seed bank does have numerous landrace varieties in stock but need to be bulked up. The project requirements are 50 hectares planted in the first year - can you assist in the procurement of Keller. Keller has a VERY special value proposal, it was ‘exported’ to USA from my place of birth in the Kwazulu Natal (South Africa) 150 years ago!!! So, Keller will be a significant, Sweet victory!! Can you help????
    Louis le Roex

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