{"id":416748,"date":"2026-08-26T00:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416748\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T00:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:46:10","slug":"worlds-leading-sorghum-experts-descending-on-lubbock-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416748\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Leading Sorghum Experts Descending on Lubbock Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 Sitting among one of the largest sorghum-growing areas in the U.S., Texas Tech University<\/a>\u00a0once again will show the world how its cutting-edge research and innovation can drive an industry.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech will host the Global Sorghum Conference Sept. 14-18 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. Marking the first time it has been held in the U.S., the conference brings together leading researchers, producers and industry experts from around the world to Lubbock.<\/p>\n

\u201cLubbock\u2019s location in the heart of the sorghum belt and Texas Tech\u2019s extensive sorghum research make us a natural fit to host,\u201d said\u00a0Monty Christian<\/a>, executive director of marketing strategies in\u00a0Research & Innovation<\/a>, who is chair of the conference planning committee. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to showcase what makes this area so important to advancing sorghum research and production.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previous conferences were hosted in Cape Town, South Africa and Montpelier, France. The selection of Texas Tech as conference host by the Global Sorghum Association underscores the university\u2019s growing international reputation in agricultural research and positions West Texas as a global hub for conversations on food security, resilience and crop innovation.<\/p>\n

The conference will showcase private and public researchers as well as highlight sorghum\u2019s unique role in providing a drought-resistant, heat-tolerant agricultural food source. It also will give Texas Tech researchers an opportunity to demonstrate the extraordinary research being conducted on campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIssues facing West Texas are facing many other semi-arid regions, and that makes the research we\u2019re leading in areas like genomics and water conservation critical worldwide,\u201d said\u00a0James Reecy<\/a>, vice president for research and innovation. \u201cThe conference is a great opportunity to expand our global impact through collaboration and knowledge exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the conference, experts will explore solutions to some of agriculture\u2019s most pressing challenges, including water scarcity, sustainable production and feeding a growing global population. The aim of the conference is to:<\/p>\n

Catalyze new research and collaboration on high-priority topics;
\nStrengthen the relationship between producers and researchers;
\nFoster interaction between academia, government and national programs, NGOs and the private sector;
\nWork with the Global Sorghum Association to promote the international importance of sorghum.<\/p>\n

Among the Texas Tech researchers who will be featured at the conference are\u00a0Luis Herrera-Estrella<\/a>, President\u2019s Distinguished Professor of Plant Genomics and director of the\u00a0Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance<\/a>\u00a0(IGCAST), and\u00a0Krishna Jagadish<\/a>, professor and Thornton Distinguished Chair in the\u00a0Department of Plant & Soil Science<\/a>\u00a0and director of the\u00a0Texas Coalition for Sustainable Integrated Systems Research Program<\/a>\u00a0(TeCSIS).<\/p>\n

Keynote speakers will include:<\/p>\n

University of Queensland (Australia) professor David Jordan, a sorghum breeder and geneticist who has more than 30 years\u2019 experience in both the public and private sectors;
\nHolly Mayton, the Science, Technology and Policy Partnerships Lead at the John Deere Corporation;
\nJessica Christiansen, Head of Communications for Bayer CropScience;
\nKira Everhart-Valentin, Alliance Manager for Gates One Ag;
\nNora Lapitan, Deputy Administrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Research Service.<\/p>\n

To learn more and register for the event, visit:\u00a0www.depts.ttu.edu\/research\/sorghum-conference\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a full list of conference speakers, event schedule and other media assets, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Texas Tech University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 Sitting among one of the largest sorghum-growing areas in the U.S., Texas Tech University\u00a0once again…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,4104,168,170,169,858,43025],"class_list":["post-416748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-events","tag-international","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-research","tag-sorghum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}