The USDA has lowered its 2023 sorghum production guess.
The crop is now projected at 359.575 million bushels, 21.645 million under the September report due to a decrease in the average yield estimate, now seen at 57.4 bushels per acre, as harvest moves forward. Harvested area this year is pegged at 6.26 million acres. In 2022, U.S. sorghum production was 187.785 million bushels, with an average yield of 60.9 bushels per acre on harvested area of 4.57 million acres.
