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Sorghum Buyers Visit U.S. This Month
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:11:31 CST
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. O'Neil says - this is a false assumption. That assumption will be addressed when sorghum buying teams from Morocco, Saud Arabia and Egypt visit the United States during the week of January 25th.
The Teams will attend high level nutrition training sessions at the International Grains Program at Kansas State University, before traveling to Atlanta, Georgia, 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, Louisiana, 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 gives us a great opportunity to share the advantages of using sorghum and allows us to maintain existing markets and open new ones.
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