Want to satisfy your goal of self-sufficiency and your sweet tooth? Consider growing sorghum, crushing the cane, and boiling it down into sorghum syrup. Sorghum is similar to sugarcane but can be ...

WASHINGTON — What's sweet like sugarcane, looks something like corn and could be grown in much of the United States to make ethanol? Sweet sorghum. American pioneers used sweet sorghum as a substitute ...

If Aaron Pepper has his way, the ethanol blended into gas for your car in South Florida will soon come from the shores of Lake Okeechobee. His Fort Lauderdale company seeks to build three factories by ...

Sorghum-related biofuels research is taking a localized approach, with the aim of making possible the effective production of ethanol in the farmer's own field. Sweet sorghum can be grown throughout ...

An ethanol plant could be up and running in Childers, in south-east Queensland, within two years if trials of the crop 'sweet sorghum' prove successful. Alternative energy company AgriFuels says the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A corn-like plant that can grow as high as an elephant's eye on some of Earth's driest farmland shows promise as a "smart" biofuel that won't cut into world food supplies, an ...

This is one to take seriously. A deal has been made by Pioneer Hybrids, the corn seed company started by the Vice President back in one of Roosevelt’s terms, Henry A. Wallace who introduced hybrid ...

LUBBOCK — Sweet sorghum is grown in the U.S. for cooking and as livestock feed. But the tall plant also has a juicier benefit. A sugary sap inside the plant's stalk, which can grow as tall as 12 feet, ...

WASHINGTON - American pioneers used sweet sorghum as a substitute for sugar to make syrup. The syrup is still available today, mostly made in Kentucky and Tennessee, but for decades most American ...

In our earliest days of pioneer cooking and baking, the “big four” for forms of “sweet harvests,” which have provided sugar derivatives dating back to the days of the 13 colonies, are honey, maple ...