Arden Barnes According to the University of Kentucky Extension Service, broomcorn is not corn. It’s a ... fibrous seed head that is used to make brooms and brushes. Arden Barnes Handmade brooms ...

Sorghum seeds can be cooked, popped ... "I inclose you some of the Grain called Whisk Corn, or Broom Corn," he wrote to Samuel Ward in 1757, in a letter from the National Archives. "It must be planted ...

Corn brooms are the kind you might associate with Halloween-style witches: Their bristles are long and bundled together, meeting the floor flat, unlike an angle broom. The longer bristles give ...

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But other accounts say that sorghum arrived in North America with enslaved Africans, who’d braided seeds from the native ... the Berea shop sell around 5,000 brooms a year. Though plastics dominate ...

“I joined him every fall and collaborated and exchanged seeds and ideas,” Moyer said. “He developed a plain green broom corn and I made mine multicolored.” By 2006, he had several ...

A farmer in northwest Minnesota says there’s been some good soybeans this fall, but there’s also variability in fields caused ...

Pivot Bio announced an industry first for farmers this week – the development and introduction of on-seed microbial nitrogen for crops including corn, grain sorghum and spring wheat. “Our ...

That’s where my mini dustpan and broom come in. I ended up ordering this ... The same goes for spilled chia seeds (which become more annoying to clean up if they’re exposed to moisture ...

Halloween doesn't just have to be about the treats. Serve up these delicious Halloween appetizers and snack ideas at your ...

According to the University of Kentucky Extension Service, broomcorn is not corn. It’s a type of sorghum used for making brooms and whiskbrooms ... that removes seeds from the broomcorn ...