2026 Global Sorghum Conference - Texas Tech University

The five day event centers on agronomy, crops and soil sciences, with technical presentations, workshops, networking events, award ceremonies and field tours built into the schedule. Texas Tech is partnering with the Global Sorghum Association to put it together, putting Lubbock at the center of a conversation about sorghum's future that stretches well past the South Plains. Given how much sorghum acreage surrounds this city, that is not a small thing.

For people here, this means a week of visitors filling up hotels, restaurants and meeting spaces while the university plays host to a genuinely global crowd. Producers in the area finally get a shot at rubbing elbows with international researchers without ever leaving town. Students studying crops and soil sciences get access to competitions and programming that usually require travel to reach.

Sorghum does not get the same spotlight as cotton or wheat around here, but Lubbock is about to spend five days treating it like the main event.