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peer-reviewed research article

Corn tops sorghum in comparison trials

authors

Thomas E. Kearney
Karl H. Ingebretsen, University of California
John D. Prato, University of California

publication information

California Agriculture 31(8):19-19. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v031n08p19. August 1977.

Summary

In three years of comparing corn to sorghum as a double crop, corn showed advantages in yield, overwintering, planting time and length of growing season, and harvesting.

author affiliations

Thomas E. Kearney is Farm Advisor, Cooperative Extension, Yolo County; Karl H. Ingebretsen is Extension Agronomists, Department of Agronomy and Range Science, University of California, Davis. John D. Prato is Extension Agronomists, Department of Agronomy and Range Science, University of California, Davis.

author notes

The assistance of N.M. Andrews, Principal Superintendent of Cultivation, Department of Agronomy and Range Science, University of California, Davis, and C. Langston, Extension Assistant, Cooperative Extension, Yolo County, is gratefully acknowledged.


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