# Planting sorghum good option for flooded corn acres

> Wet spring flooding across the Midwest, including over half of Kansas counties, has kept farmers from planting corn. Grain sorghum is being promoted as a late-planting, drought-tolerant alternative with much lower seed costs than corn.

- Date: 2019-06-04 · published 2019-06-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/58634-planting-sorghum-good-option-for-flooded-corn-acres
- Commodities: [Sorghum](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SORGHUM.md), [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Prevented corn planting shifts acreage toward sorghum, which trims future corn supply and moves feed grain demand between the two crops.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bullish ▲
- SORGHUM: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2020-02-18 | [Spring Corn Belt Flooding Concerns Persist Before Planting Season](https://feedsoft.ai/events/54449-spring-corn-belt-flooding-concerns-persist-before-planting-season.md) | -1.7% | -3.5% |
| CORN | 2019-05-30 | [Late planting grain sorghum could provide farmers opportunity](https://feedsoft.ai/events/59156-late-planting-grain-sorghum-could-provide-farmers-opportunity.md) | -0.9% | +6.0% |
| CORN | 2019-06-07 | [New developments could boost sorghum acres - Smart Food](https://feedsoft.ai/events/58636-new-developments-could-boost-sorghum-acres-smart-food.md) | +3.6% | +3.5% |
| CORN | 2019-06-18 | [Saved by Sorghum: Farmers, ethanol plants turn to milo in rough year for corn - Governors' Biofuels Coalition](https://feedsoft.ai/events/58631-saved-by-sorghum-farmers-ethanol-plants-turn-to-milo-in-rough-year-for-corn.md) | +0.5% | -2.4% |
| CORN | 2019-05-31 | [Corn futures market flexes amid wild planting season - McKeany-Flavell](https://feedsoft.ai/events/59122-corn-futures-market-flexes-amid-wild-planting-season-mckeany-flavell.md) | -2.5% | +3.0% |

## Sources

- farmprogress.com: https://www.farmprogress.com/planting/planting-sorghum-good-option-for-flooded-corn-acres

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