The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSWDPI) has released a new sorghum Agfact, with 26 pages devoted to best management practices in the fields of agronomy, storage, end uses and marketing.
 
Departmental district agronomist for Moree West, Nathan Ferguson, says sorghum has a critical role as a rotation crop in the winter cereal based farming system of northern New South Wales.

Mr Ferguson says sorghum acts as a disease break for winter cereals and allows cheap weed control in fallows, reducing the use of herbicides in the moderate to high-risk category for the development of resistance, spreads cash flow and machinery utilisation over the year and uses available moisture.

"Sorghum should be grown where weed control over the previous summer was good and where there is at least one metre of wet soil,' Mr Ferguson said.

The grain sorghum Agfact (P3.3.5, first edition 2005) is available on www.agric.nsw.gov.au/readere/summergrains or from district NSWDPI offices.