USDA sorghum estimate down, still up on year

USDA sorghum estimate down, still up on year

Yield results have pulled the USDA’s 2023 sorghum production guess lower.

The USDA has the crop at 321.82 million bushels, 10% less than October following a six bushel cut in yield due to harvest reports, now at 51.4 bushels per acre on harvested area of 6.26 million acres, but that’s still 71% larger than 2022 thanks to better growing conditions and larger acreage numbers. In 2022, sorghum production was 187.785 million bushels with an average yield of 41.1 bushels per acre on harvested area of 4.57 million acres.

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