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Sweet Sorghum is an ideal crop for production of ethanol biofuel. Biofuels are more often produced from sugar cane or corn, but using sorghum for biofuel can have several advantages over these more traditional crops. Sweet sorghum requires very little fertilizer,http://www.ncagr.gov/cyber/kidswrld/plant/label.htm, can withstand dry conditions, grows quickly, and is already widely grown around the world. In addition, sorghum biofuel is made from the juice of the stem of the plant and does not affect grain production. (more…)