Jenny Dueck: "Sorghum has come to stay in the Chaco"

Published 2025년 9월 22일

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Agricultural Engineer Jenny Dueck, technical coordinator of the Ideagro Evaluation Trials Network (REEI), mentioned in Nación Productiva that although the sorghum yields were not good this year in the trial network, likely due to high humidity and late sowing, the crop is here to stay, considering that it shows interesting potential for the Chaco, because it mainly offers the security of better yields in dry years, in addition to its ability to develop in marginal soils, where corn does not adapt.

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In the Sunday agroclassic, during which we discussed the results of the 2024/2025 soybean, corn, and sorghum REEI presented on September 11 during the 8th Sustainable Summer Crops Day, the professional highlighted that from the Ideagro Foundation they will continue working with sorghum, considering that the crop has shown interesting potential for the Chaco, especially for marginal soils, where corn does not adapt. "So, yes or yes, the crop will stay, because it is a crop that provides a lot of security in dry years with better productivity," he explained. He underlined that two different evaluations were carried out for the sorghum crop: one for grain sorghum and another for forage sorghum, and he pointed out that there are hybrids that are evaluated in both tests because they are of double purpose, but that they differ for the test between grain and forage. The sorghum test was conducted in four locations, which are the experimental fields of the three central Chaco ...
Source: Productivacm

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