Gassed up on sorghum? Plant shows promise as another source for ethanol

Kentucky.com (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Posted on Mon, May. 19, 2008
By Jim Jordan
JJORDAN1@HERALD-LEADER.COM

It's a fall tradition in Hawesville, West Liberty and other Kentucky towns to celebrate the sweet sorghum harvest with a festival of food, music and local crafts.

Researchers say the whole state might soon have an economic reason to celebrate the corn lookalike as a source of ethanol, a gasoline additive that can reduce the nation's demand for oil.

"It has a lot of promise in Kentucky," says Mike Montross, an agricultural engineer at the University of Kentucky. "I think it should be good for the state."

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