What is the history of sorghum in North America? For some perspectives we turn first to a quite good piece on the True Treats Historic Candy LLC website that offers a broad US historical context while focusing on sorghum syrup or molasses: "The Triumph, Defeats, and Ultimate Victory of the Sorghum Syrup" https://truetreatscandy.com/the-triumph-defeats-and-ultimate-victory-og-the-... The National Sorghum Producers quarterly magazine, Sorghum Grower, has an article taking the focus more to the central plains "sorghum belt" entitled "Milo or Sorghum What Say You?" https://sorghumgrowers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2021_SorghumGrower_Fal... (scroll down to p. 6) What of the supposed role of Benjamin Franklin in the introduction of "broomcorn" US (another name for sorghum) to the US. It turns out that sources are not clear, even if he had a role in promoting it: https://bacacountyhistory.com/2016/12/09/did-ben-franklin-really-have-an-key... It bears noting, in any case, that the first seeds of sorghum in America likely came with enslaved Africans (like seeds of pearl millet & African rice, to speak only of grains). Amont the sources discussing this: https://www.pullupyourplants.com/archive/sorghum/benfranklin Sorghum came as a crop to Canada only about 3 decades ago: https://www.topcropmanager.com/sorghum-in-canada-20528/ Altho sorghum may have come to Mexico much earlier, the first publication about it there was in 1882, and its cultivation as a crop was boosted beginning in the 1950s by availability of hybrid varieties from Texas (per a 2002 paper by Hector Williams-Alanís, "Sorghum and Millet in Mexico"): https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470384923.ch75 (I shared this link previously on Collab). Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US) North American Millets Alliance