Visitors Focus on Sorghum
Spain and Portugal send grain buyers on tour of U.S. farms.
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Published: Jan 31, 2011
Last week, the Sorghum Checkoff and the U.S. Grains Council hosted a group of Spanish and Portuguese grain buyers as they visited Kansas and South Texas. The organizations encouraged the use of sorghum in foreign poultry, swine and ruminant industries. Greg Graff, a sorghum farmer from Marienthal, Kan. says this group offers a great opportunity to sorghum producers because they represent very diverse industries.
"Presentations were made by everyone from nutritionists and feed millers to producer representatives," Graff said. "They are very interested in the sorghum and its potential in their industry."
Spain has been a very important customer for sorghum in the past and now wants to learn the newest practices in feed milling and ration formulation, as well as the current nutritive values of grain sorghum. Sorghum offers them a great value and they recognize that.
Due to shortages of feed grains, many European countries are looking for opportunities to import high quality grain. To date, Spain has imported or committed to import more than 18 million bushels of U.S. sorghum. Since 2009, the number of countries importing sorghum has increased, thanks largely to many other foreign grain buyer tours like this one.
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