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'Sweet sorghum' is any of the many varieties of sorghum, a cane-like plant with a high sugar content. Sweet sorghum will thrive under drier and warmer conditions than many other crops and is grown primarily for forage, silage, and sugar production.
African slaves introduced the crop, which then was known as "Guinea corn," into the United States in the early part of the 17th century. Sweet sorghum has been widely cultivated in the U.S. since the 1850s for use in sweeteners, primarily in the form of sorghum syrup. By the early 1900's, the U.S. produced 20 million gallons of sweet sorghum syrup annually. Making syrup from sorghum (as from sugar cane) is heavily labor intensive. Following World War II, with the declining availability of farm labor, sorghum syrup production fell drastically. Currently, less than 1 million gallons are produced annually in the U.S. Most sorghum grown for syrup production is grown in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Sorghum syrup and hot biscuits are a traditional breakfast in southern Appalachia.
In the U.S. since the 1950s, sorghum has been raised primarily for forage and silage, with sorghum cultivation for cattle feed concentrated in the Great Plains (Texas, Kansas, and Nebraska are the leading producers), where insufficient rainfall and high temperature make corn production unprofitable.

Sweet sorghum syrup is sometimes called "molasses" in some regions of the U.S., but the term ''molasses'' more properly refers to a different sweet syrup, made as a byproduct of sugarcane or sugar beet production.
Waiters at Lambert's restaurant, "home of the throwed roll," circle the dining room offering to spread sorghum on patrons' rolls.
In India Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute [1]has been selling sweet sorghum syrup since 1990s. Feedback from the users compare the syrup with honey both in color and taste.

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Sorghum festivals in the US

See also

★ Sorghum

External links

★ National Sweet Sorghum Producers and Processors Association

★ Sweet sorghum research at Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute, India

★ Syrup from Sweet Sorghum

★ A collection of recipes using Sweet Sorghum

Sorghum festivals in the US

★ Sorghum Festival Official sorghum festival of Georgia; held in Blairsville, Georgia.

★ Sorghum Festival Crawford County, Indiana

★ Morgan County Sorghum Festival West Liberty, Kentucky

★ Hancock County Sorghum Festival Hawesville, Kentucky

★ Old School Sorghum Festival McDaniels Crossroads, North Carolina

★ Sorghum Festival Wewoka, Oklahoma.

★ Scott County Sorghum Festival Oneida, Tennessee

★ Syrup Sopping Oct. 22nd, 2005 Loachapoka, Alabama