USCP recently gave sorghum growers a taste of the potential future of their crop. Representatives from USCP were present at the Evans Grain annual meeting in Tulia, Texas. The meeting allowed the company, located in Kress, Texas, to touch base with farmers in the area. USCP was invited to give an update of current checkoff funded projects and future opportunities for sorghum.

Mark Elmore, a sorghum producer from Allison, Texas appreciates the value of selling his grain at a guaranteed price. Elmore pre-contracts his dry-land grain sorghum with Texas Farm L.L.C., a subsidiary of Nippon Meat Packers, Inc. 

“It helps me to know exactly what I will get for my sorghum crop at harvest. If it looks like the numbers won’t work out on paper, then I won’t put anything in the ground,” says Elmore. “It’s a lot less stressful to know that I will get a good price for my grain.”