The fire driving Mark Guenther's 33-year-old locomotive boiler raged outside his steam-filled production room. Making sorghum syrup is not cool work, even on the first day the Monterey, Tenn. heat had ...

In Southern Indiana sorghum is still celebrated and autumn is the time when old sorghum mills start spinning, turning the cane into juice which, like maple syrup, is cooked into syrup. Sorghum cane is ...

In our earliest days of pioneer cooking and baking, the “big four” for forms of “sweet harvests,” which have provided sugar derivatives dating back to the days of the 13 colonies, are honey, maple ...

Nashville Craft Distillery makes a spirit from Muddy Pond sorghum, a sweet syrup made traditionally in the hills of Tennessee. Old Glory Distilling Co. in Clarksville sources from local farms for the ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — The 25th annual Sorghum Festival will allow visitors to Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site to observe sorghum cane being processed into molasses using a mule-powered mill on ...

Years ago, while on a sorghum hunting expedition in the Arkansas Ozarks, I stopped at an old farmhouse. It turned out to be a memorable occasion. I love Arkansas. There are still rural settings there ...

ELLSINORE, Mo. -- In the shade-dotted backyard of the Ellsinore Pioneer Museum, 75-year-old volunteer Virgie Alcorn Evans stopped pulling sorghum cane through the cane press just long enough to push a ...

MOUNT IDA - If you're of a certain age, you remember sorghum. It was used "in the old days" in the form of sorghum syrup as a sweetener. In the early 1900s, rural families depended on sorghum syrup as ...

“Sorghum is the future,” said Brandon Bouma, a fifth-generation dairy farmer and owner of Legacy Dairy and Sorghum Silage Operation in Plainview, Texas. Bouma and his family milk nearly 4.000 cows ...