Sorghum producers see biofuels as key growth opportunity
NSP backed USDA’s Regenerative Feedstock Rule as Farm Progress pegged sorghum’s advanced biofuel premium at 30 cents per bushel.
National Sorghum Producers on July 1 welcomed USDA's final Regenerative Feedstock Rule, while Farm Progress put a premium at 30 cents per bushel. The group said the rule was an important step for value-added biofuel feedstock opportunities, keeping fuel demand at the center of its market pitch for sorghum.
President Trump signed an executive order promoting regenerative agriculture as USDA finalized the rule, giving the policy push a White House backdrop. NSP tied its support to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and USDA, framing the move as federal recognition that sorghum can compete as a fuel feedstock, not just a feed grain.
EPA approval of the sorghum oil pathway also cleared the way for biodiesel plants to produce advanced biofuels from grain sorghum oil extracted at ethanol plants. Earlier USDA Agricultural Research Service material on sorghum as a biofuels feedstock said the crop can fit into grain ethanol, sugar ethanol and other renewable fuel schemes, which gives growers multiple conversion paths to watch as plants look for lower-carbon inputs.
Farm Progress's 30-cent-per-bushel figure highlighted the farm-gate upside sorghum producers are chasing if those pathways turn into routine contracts. For growers, the near-term test is whether USDA's rulemaking, EPA pathway approvals and plant-level buying interest turn that 30-cent-per-bushel premium into contract value at the farm gate.
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