Mexican grain buyers spend the week in Kansas and Texas

Shelee Padgett, our Member Services Director, spent the last week with 10 agri-businessmen and women from Mexico with hopes of strengthening export markets of the U.S. sorghum industry. The United Sorghum Checkoff Program and U.S. Grains Council sponsored the trip as part of the education and market development function of the national sorghum checkoff.



Tours and visits included:

• DeBruce Grain elevator in Abilene, Kansas


• Cargill Ag Horizons with Clayton Short, a sorghum producer, in Assaria, Kansas


• AgMark, a grain marketing organization, in Concordia, Kansas


• Scoular, an agriculture marketing company, in Downs, Kansas


• ADM at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas


• Planter's Grain Coop's facility in Taft

Kansas and Texas are the two top sorghum-producing states in the U.S., which make them the primary focus for sorghum exports to Mexico. The cattle and poultry producers in Mexico have a high interest in U.S. sorghum as an alternative feed source. While on their visit, members from Mexico also learned about how grain is stored, merchandised, transported and prepared to be shipped to their country.