Low-tannin US sorghum a viable alternative in swine diets

Compared with other major cereals, sorghum is less known worldwide. Yet, when one brings up the folklore image of a witch on a broom, then everyone knows sorghum. That broom was more likely than not made from a specific variety of sorghum (vulgare) that is still cultivated throughout the world for this specific purpose.

Nevertheless, our discussion here is focused on grain sorghum (bicolor), the only variety among 25 existing that is used for this purpose. And, although a native of Africa, with archeological evidence going back at least eight millennia, grain sorghum today is a major crop in the U.S., where it has managed to distinguish itself from other grain sorghum commercial hybrids worldwide.