Growing degree graphs include cumulative lines for 1996 and normal. All graphs include vertical lines indicating planting, heading, and harvest dates, if available. The graphs reveal general trends in precipitation and rainfall compared to normal. For more detailed information, a table is included with monthly totals and averages for the growing season. Comparisons of the current year's weather with long-time averages often help explain unusual plant development patterns and inconsistent performance of individual hybrids over years.
Explanatory information is given preceding data summaries for each test.
Tables 1-14 contain results from individual grain sorghum performance test locations. Hybrids are no longer separated into groups based on hybrid maturity because of the difficulty in accurately assigning a maturity class before the growing season. Rather, hybrids are now listed in order of increasing days to half bloom and increasing grain moisture for the current year so hybrids of similar maturity appear together. Tables 16-18 contain results from the forage sorghum tests. Table 19 summarizes silage yields from these tests over the last 3 years.