The last several years have been quite challenging for U.S. sorghum producers and with the season coming to a close we have insight on this year’s crop.
Tim Lust, the CEO of the National Sorghum Producers tells us about conditions in Texas.
“We’re blessed that it was an early crop this year and so we’re able to get that out before they had a tropical storm/hurricane that certainly created some challenges. So, above average crop in south Texas, and that parts positive. Move into southwest Oklahoma a lot more drought there and tougher situations. I think when we look at the rest of the country, you know, certainly I think sorghum looked really good early, went through a really challenging time period 20-30 days ago, but sorghum’s tough, held on got some rains here in the last week that will certainly help. It’s not going to be a great national average crop, but you know, I’m not ready yet to say that it’s maybe quite as bad as USDA’s yield estimates were,” Lust explains.
Lust says that sorghum group is a little bit below average, but not nearly as bad as recent years.
