Sorghum Buyers Visit U.S. This Month
Buyers from several Middle Eastern countries will be hosted by USGC and USCP next week.
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Published: Jan 20, 2010
Jay O'Neil, Senior Agricultural Economist with the International Grains Program at Kansas State University says there is a misconception among many foreign producers that sorghum is a low quality feed in livestock diets.
"This is a false assumption," O'Neil said. "That assumption will be addressed when sorghum buying teams from Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Egypt visit the United States during the week of Jan. 25."
The teams will attend high level nutrition training sessions at the International Grains Program at Kansas State University, before traveling to Atlanta, Ga., for the Atlanta Poultry Expo. Experts will give presentations on the quality of U.S. sorghum and the value of sorghum in feed rations for poultry and dairy production. A second Moroccan team will attend a course in New Orleans, La., to learn U.S. Federal Grain Inspection Standards before traveling to the International Poultry and Feeds Expo in Atlanta.
The United Sorghum Checkoff Program and the U.S. Grains Council are sponsoring these visits. The two organizations have coordinated several buyer missions from the Middle East and North Africa, many of which resulted in the purchase of U.S. sorghum by foreign buyers. USCP Marketing Director, Florentino Lopez, says this is a great opportunity to share the advantages of using sorghum and allows the U.S. to maintain existing markets and open new ones.
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