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A few years ago, the Radabaughs were among only a few farmers in the state growing sorghum, a sugar canelike stalk that entire communities used to gather to press into syrup every year.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2019

They included sorghum, a canelike grass with red-tinted tassels spilling from the tops, mung beans and green-topped daikon radishes low to the ground.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2018