Feeding trials started in late June. Due to the light and airy nature of pop sorghum, it is being ground down before it is fed to the cattle.
"At the moment we are just testing the concept but, if we achieve a significant production response, further development into a machine that can allow the sorghum to be popped on-farm will be conducted," said Amy Anstis, principal investigator for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
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Vivergo has opened a bioethanol refinery on Humberside, UK. The new refinery is welcomed by the English NFU not only for its planned annual consumption of more than one million tonnes of wheat but also for providing half a million tonnes of animal feed.
The Vivergo company was set up six years ago by AB Sugar, the petroleum company BP and the chemical giant Du Pont. Since then some £350 million has been spent on creating the plant on the 25 acre site which will, at full production, produce some 420 million litres of bioethanol annually.
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Salome Yesudas, nutrition scientist, in Chennai, India has documented 93 varieties of native 'lost' greens and healthy grains.
"More than 60 years ago, they were eaten because of their medicinal and nutritional value. Today, they are ignored or discarded as weeds," Yesudas told The Times of India.
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