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ITEMS OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
drain sorghums may be the next important hybrid farm crop in America.
Hybrid grain sorghum seed is expected to be available to growers in limited quantities for the; first time next spring, U. S. Department of Agriculture scientists say.
In the next five years, they expect that most of the more than 10,000.000 acres now annually planted in open-pollinated varieties of grain sorghums may be planted with new superior hybrids. Some experimental field trials have given yields for hybrids that are 20 to 40 over varieties currently in use, a gain at least equal to; that which farmers obtain from hybrid corn.
Most noticeably, scientists; have done these things: Dwarfed the stalk. making a plant easier to harvest and handle and less of a drain on plant /ood and water; straight
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