date:May 30, 2016
just weeks from harvesting a bumper wheat crop.
Cash premiums for both wheat and sorghum 0#GGC-SORG-KS 0#GGC-WHRW-KS are at five- to six-year lows at many elevators throughout Kansas, which is also Americas top wheat producer.
A year ago they (elevators) were loading it (sorghum) on the rails and shipping it out to California (for export), said Gary Millershaski, a farmer in Lakin, Kansas. They have hardly shipped out any this year. For the last six months weve been thinking that it should be