A group of sorghum buyers from Eastern Asia and the Philippines are visiting the United States this week focusing on the value of sorghum as a feed for poultry and swine production. The group will visit a few traditional country elevators in South Texas before traveling to a sorghum farm near Palacios, Texas, to learn firsthand how sorghum is grown and processed in the United States. The tour group is hosted by the Sorghum Checkoff and the U.S. Grains Council.
After their tour in South Texas, the group will travel to Mexico where they will visit commercial feed mills and poultry production facilities. The goal of these visits is to allow the group to see how the Mexican swine and poultry industries utilize sorghum as a high quality feed. Stewart Weaver, a sorghum producer from Edmondson, Ark., says many of these buyers have not used much sorghum and they want them to see the value sorghum offers here in the U.S. and to other countries who use U.S. sorghum.
Joe Kelley, manager of Farmer’s Cooperative of El Campo Agricultural Export Center, says they want these groups to know that we are very concerned with quality and providing them with the best value possible.
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