# Reduced sorghum area faces demand/price challenge - Grain Central

> Australian sorghum plantings for this summer appear lower than last year, as growers switched to dryland cotton on high cotton prices. Seed sales of sorghum are reported well down across NSW and Queensland valleys. Feedlots are unlikely to use much sorghum because wheat and barley are already contracted into rations.

- Date: 2017-01-17 · published 2017-01-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region Australia · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/73052-reduced-sorghum-area-faces-demand-price-challenge-grain-central
- Commodities: [Sorghum](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SORGHUM.md)

## Why it matters

Less area planted lowers future sorghum supply, but weak world grain prices and an expected exportable surplus limit the upside for feed buyers.

## Read by commodity

- SORGHUM: neutral

## Sources

- graincentral.com: https://www.graincentral.com/markets/reduced-sorghum-area-faces-demandprice-challenge/

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