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Global Sorghum Conference coming to Lubbock this month - fox34.com
Lubbock is hosting the Global Sorghum Conference for the first time ever this month, and it marks the first time the conference has landed anywhere in the United States. Growers, researchers, and industry leaders will gather at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center from September 14 through September 18.
Growers, researchers, and industry leaders will gather at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center from September 14 through September 18. The five-day event includes presentations, workshops, networking events, award ceremonies, and field tours. Registration is still open at the Texas Tech research site for anyone who wants in.
Texas Tech has a direct stake in the conference. Yinping Jiao, an associate professor of crop population genomics at the Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance at Texas Tech University, is among the featured experts. That kind of institutional involvement explains why Lubbock landed this event in the first place. The South Plains is one of the largest sorghum-producing regions in the country, and Tech has spent years building serious research credentials around the crop.
For farmers and agribusiness people across the region, a week of concentrated global expertise on sorghum right here in town is a rare chance to connect with researchers and leaders who usually require a flight to reach. The Civic Center on Mac Davis Lane becomes a hub for international agricultural science for those five days.
Sorghum is the fifth most produced grain crop in the world.
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Where and when is the Global Sorghum Conference in Lubbock?
- The Global Sorghum Conference runs September 14 through September 18 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. The five-day event includes presentations, workshops, field tours, networking events, and award ceremonies. Registration is still open at the Texas Tech research site.
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