Chicken producers worldwide have shown increased willingness to use sorghum rather than corn in their feed to save costs, demonstrating sorghum’s potential to be an alternative feed, according to USDA economists.
New lines of sorghum cultivars free of tannin have made the grain more digestible and therefore easier to substitute for corn, according to a study by USDA’s Economic Research Service.
“The results of this study show that — whenever the price of sorghum fell below that of corn and in the presence of greater price risk for corn in global markets, as occurred following the Russia-Ukraine war, risk-averse producers would shift to sorghum. Countries that strongly showed this behavior are China, the United States, Egypt, and, to some degree, Mexico,” the study says.
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The authors concluded that the United States can increase exports of sorghum feed, especially where there is growing demand for corn for other uses.
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