Kansas State University Extension shares some important control suggestions for the sorghum midge, which caused widespread damage to grain sorghum crops this year in a break with past precedent.

USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant geneticist Robert Klein and the Crop Germplasm Research Unit in College Station, Texas, have developed newly converted tropical sorghum lines that will thrive in temperate climates and have the genetic potential for high grain yields in the U.S.