Three Texas Tech Graduate Students Find Their Calling as Sorghum Researchers - Texas Tech University

Texas Tech is hosting the Global Sorghum Conference later this month, and the timing puts a spotlight on the work happening inside the Davis College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. Nicholas McNab, a first-year master's student in the Department of Plant and Soil Science, is studying chilling tolerance in sorghum. Ahmari D. Henry, a second-year master's student in Animal and Food Sciences, is focused on how sorghum affects digestion in cattle. A third student, whose last name was not fully included in the available source material, is researching stalk strength.

Sorghum is not a glamorous crop, but it matters enormously on the South Plains. It grows in dry conditions that would stress other grains, making it a practical choice for West Texas farmers working land that does not always cooperate. Research into chilling tolerance, cattle digestion, and stalk durability all connect directly to problems producers face in the field.

Texas Tech hosting a conference of this scale signals that Lubbock is not just a place where sorghum grows, but increasingly a place where the science around it gets written.