Is the sweet sorghum plant the miracle crop that we’re looking for to provide cheap animal feed and fuel without straining the world’s food supply or harming the environment? Some scientists say it might be.

It has high positive energy balance, producing about eight units of energy for every unit of energy invested in its cultivation and production, roughly equivalent to sugarcane and about four times greater than the energy produced by corn. Sweet sorghum requires little or no irrigation, limiting the use of fuel-burning water pumps that emit carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas contributing to climate change…

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