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Feed The Future Releases Two New Sorghum Varieties In Nicaragua, Kimberly Christiansen
Feed The Future Releases Two New Sorghum Varieties In Nicaragua, Kimberly Christiansen
INTSORMIL Impacts and Bulletins
de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (INTA), the Collaborative Research Support Program for Sorghum, Millet and Other Grains (INTSORMIL) has released two new varieties of sorghum in Nicaragua that will be used for forage (plant material eaten by grazing livestock).
These new varieties exhibit the “brown midrib” trait (bmr), which has been used for many years by sorghum producers in the United States. The bmr trait increases the digestibility of sorghum by reducing the amount of lignin, a chemical compound found in the cell walls of plants. The more digestible sorghum is for the livestock that consume it, the higher the quality of …