The Sorghum Check off Board along with Kansas State University and the Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission are partnering on a grain sorghum productivity and market expansion program. The goal is to increase demand to 1.25 million bushels of sorghum by 2025. Sorghum Check Off Board Chairman and South Dakota grower David Fremark says health benefits of sorghum have prompted interest in the grain.
He says another major aim of the market expansion program is to increase the national average yield from 61.95 bushels per acre to 100 bushels per acre by 2025. He says popularity of sorghum has been growing in South Dakota with robust production last year.
Fremark anticipates there will be more acres planted to sorghum in South Dakota this spring.
Fremark says the sorghum check off is a mandatory program that is six tenths of one percent.
