Striga, also known as witchweed, is a parasitic weed that infests cereal crops including sorghum. Crop damage occurs as striga plants penetrate the roots of host plants, diverting essential nutrients to the weed instead of to the crop. Striga thrives in areas of low soil fertility and plant diversity. By the time the flowers appear, damage to the crop has already occurred. Crop loss can be as high as 70%. EDN 59-2 contains more information about striga and highlights a striga-resistant variety of sorghum developed at Purdue University. Of the sorghum varieties that we have grown on our demonstration farm at ECHO, the striga-resistant varieties have consistently performed best, even though we do not have striga. We have seed available in trial-sized packets. If you have received seeds of striga-resistant sorghum from ECHO in the past, we would be interested in reports of its performance in the field and acceptance by local farmers.