Sweet sorghum is any of the many varieties of the
sorghum grass whose stalks have a high sugar content. Sweet sorghum thrives better under drier and warmer conditions than many other crops and is grown primarily for
forage,
silage, and
syrup production. Sweet sorghum syrup is sometimes called "
molasses" or "sorghum molasses" in some regions of the U.S., but the term
molasses more properly refers to a different sweet syrup, made as a byproduct of
sugarcane or
sugar beet sugar extraction.