…number one supplier of commodities like sorghum, soy, wheat, and corn.” Currently, Cuba imports roughly 80 percent of its food from Europe, Latin America and Asia. Marshall says Cuba represent…
Farm, Ethanol Groups Urge President to Restore Integrity to RFS, Allow Year-Round E15 Sales
In a letter to President Trump, the American Farm Bureau Federation, National Corn Growers Association, National Farmers Union, National Sorghum Producers, American Coalition for Ethanol, Growth Energy, and Renewable Fuels…
USDA Launches Trade Mitigation Programs
…August of the programs to be employed: USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) will administer the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) to provide payments to corn, cotton, dairy, hog, sorghum, soybean, and…
USDA Announces Trade Relief Details
…Facilitation Program (MFP), administered by (FSA). The program will provide payments to producers of corn, cotton, dairy, pork, sorghum, soybean, and wheat. Farmers can begin to apply for the MFP…
China Grain Imports Plunge Amidst Tariffs
…sorghum. The customs figures do not give a country by country breakdown, but China imports almost all its sorghum from the United States. In July, China imported 330,000 metric tons…
Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice
…growers who do not rotate sorghum with other crops. They also stopped sorghum plants from producing sorgoleone, which would benefit farmers who want to rotate different crops with sorghum. The…
Sorghum Growers Disappointed in Chlorpyrifos Ruling
National Sorghum Producers expressed disappointment in last week’s court decision to impose a ban on chlorpyrifos, a useful pesticide for sorghum growers. Last week, a U.S. appeals court ordered the…
EPA Approves Sorghum Oil for Biofuels
…ethanol plants that extract oil from sorghum. The National Sorghum Producers worked closely with EPA over the past two years to establish a biofuels pathway for sorghum oil in the…
Tariff Assistance Package to Bring Relief to Farmers Suffering from Trade Disputes
…the components of the plan includes a market facilitation program. “That’s going to provide payments directly to producers of soybeans, sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy, and hogs,” said USDA Chief…
Enrollment for Safety Net Coverage Ends August 1
…2018 enrollment period. The ARC and PLC programs cover commodities like barley, canola, large and small chickpeas, corn, flaxseed, grain sorghum, lentils, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, dry peas, rapeseed, long…
Trump Escalates Trade War with Additional Talks of Tariffs
…has already vowed to impose tariffs on U.S. agricultural products, such as soybeans and pork, and many others, including corn, sorghum and beef. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting…
China Drops Investigations, Top Market for Sorghum Reopens
China has dropped its anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations into U.S. sorghum. National Sorghum Producers Chairman Don Bloss says NSP is “gratified” by the announcement and quick result. China has…
RFA to CARB: Ethanol Plays a Key Role in LCFS Success Story
…increase by 15-19 MMT CO2e by 2030, depending on the mix of ethanol sources. Revising default lifecycle GHG assessment model assumptions regarding grain sorghum production. Beginning a process to consider…
Sorghum Prices Falls Three Times Lower After China Tariff Announcement
…sorghum, he says, “Nobody is looking for it in the Gulf.” China had been the biggest buyer of U.S. sorghum. Chinese officials announced there would be an investigation into American…