Sorghum Price

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"World" is the global benchmark price (World Bank Pink Sheet, monthly since 1960, where available). Currency conversion uses monthly ECB reference rates since 1999 (some currencies joined later) — for comparison, not precise historical FX accounting. "Bushel" uses the USDA/CBOT standard test weight for sorghum (25.40 kg) — bushels are a fixed weight that differs per grain, not a fixed volume.

Top Producers

Rank	Country	Quantity
1	United States	8,071,090 t
2	Nigeria	6,402,000 t
3	Mexico	4,815,931 t
4	Brazil	4,498,299 t
5	Ethiopia	4,010,000 t
6	India	3,842,998 t
7	Sudan	3,054,790 t
8	China	2,950,785 t
9	Australia	2,326,266 t
10	Burkina Faso	1,772,022 t
11	Niger	1,700,912 t
12	Argentina	1,610,102 t
13	Mali	1,528,008 t
14	Cameroon	1,200,000 t
15	Bolivia	886,443 t
16	Chad	877,520 t
17	South Sudan	867,000 t
18	Egypt	841,957 t
19	Tanzania	737,819 t
20	Ghana	413,000 t
21	Senegal	364,577 t
22	France	303,990 t
23	Togo	300,000 t
24	Uganda	266,000 t
25	Italy	247,180 t
26	Yemen	200,000 t
27	Kenya	198,921 t
28	Rwanda	185,720 t
29	Oman	182,373 t
30	Myanmar (Burma)	168,548 t
31	Hungary	160,030 t
32	Saudi Arabia	157,423 t
33	Benin	150,465 t
34	Eritrea	140,000 t
35	Mozambique	139,554 t
36	Malawi	126,333 t
37	Russia	126,143 t
38	El Salvador	100,000 t
39	South Africa	94,360 t
40	Mauritania	86,000 t
41	Zimbabwe	77,906 t
42	Somalia	71,000 t
43	Côte d’Ivoire	65,356 t
44	Guinea	65,000 t
45	Sierra Leone	57,158 t
46	Thailand	50,000 t
47	Ukraine	42,370 t
48	Venezuela	41,273 t
49	Pakistan	38,645 t
50	Austria	37,470 t

FAOSTAT production data, 2023.

Top Importers

Rank	Country	Quantity
1	China	5,213,170 t
2	Japan	184,702 t
3	Kenya	104,915 t
4	South Africa	99,029 t
5	Eritrea	96,000 t
6	Sudan	84,600 t
7	South Sudan	65,099 t
8	Mexico	53,243 t
9	Taiwan	42,841 t
10	Spain	40,671 t
11	Somalia	40,000 t
12	Rwanda	38,000 t
13	Brazil	35,479 t
14	Nigeria	31,161 t
15	Italy	30,915 t
16	Israel	27,863 t
17	Belgium	25,726 t
18	Chad	25,000 t
19	Djibouti	20,850 t
20	Philippines	20,025 t
21	Uganda	19,838 t
22	Uruguay	19,584 t
23	Poland	19,300 t
24	Iraq	18,378 t
25	Burundi	16,735 t
26	Madagascar	16,716 t
27	United Kingdom	15,361 t
28	Türkiye	12,698 t
29	Netherlands	11,687 t
30	Canada	11,548 t
31	Botswana	10,389 t
32	United Arab Emirates	9,657 t
33	Germany	7,153 t
34	Austria	6,996 t
35	Portugal	6,871 t
36	Niger	6,459 t
37	Zimbabwe	5,997 t
38	Bangladesh	5,755 t
39	Pakistan	4,558 t
40	Tunisia	3,605 t
41	Bolivia	3,388 t
42	France	3,361 t
43	Eswatini	3,270 t
44	Ethiopia	3,050 t
45	South Korea	2,740 t
46	Cameroon	2,054 t
47	Haiti	2,003 t
48	El Salvador	1,910 t
49	Czechia	1,897 t
50	Jordan	1,527 t

FAOSTAT trade data, 2023.

Top Exporters

Rank	Country	Quantity
1	United States	4,377,063 t
2	Australia	2,443,294 t
3	Argentina	751,565 t
4	France	106,129 t
5	Uganda	65,715 t
6	Ukraine	55,770 t
7	Paraguay	55,296 t
8	India	35,046 t
9	Brazil	33,880 t
10	Hungary	29,453 t
11	Kenya	28,500 t
12	Tanzania	28,367 t
13	Russia	19,228 t
14	Nigeria	17,138 t
15	South Africa	15,889 t
16	Türkiye	10,246 t
17	Austria	7,631 t
18	Sudan	6,063 t
19	Moldova	6,020 t
20	Netherlands	4,982 t
21	Slovakia	4,829 t
22	Spain	3,891 t
23	Poland	3,623 t
24	Italy	3,306 t
25	Myanmar (Burma)	2,618 t
26	Belize	2,515 t
27	China	2,139 t
28	Romania	1,809 t
29	Zimbabwe	1,633 t
30	Honduras	1,416 t
31	Egypt	1,206 t
32	Uruguay	1,180 t
33	Zambia	1,010 t
34	Czechia	967 t
35	United Arab Emirates	781 t
36	Thailand	734 t
37	Germany	716 t
38	Nicaragua	687 t
39	Iran	682 t
40	Portugal	651 t
41	Botswana	563 t
42	Belgium	507 t
43	Canada	476 t
44	Uzbekistan	335 t
45	Belarus	314 t
46	Bolivia	308 t
47	Bulgaria	211 t
48	El Salvador	191 t
49	Syria	147 t
50	Greece	97 t

FAOSTAT trade data, 2023.

About Sorghum

A drought-tolerant cereal used mainly as livestock feed, with human food and bioethanol uses in some regions. The US, Nigeria and Ethiopia are the largest producers. It substitutes closely with corn in animal feed rations, so prices tend to track it closely.

Latest World price (2020-08): +15% vs. the 5-year average, -7% vs. the 10-year average, +28% vs. a year ago.

Right now, 1 t of sorghum buys about 0.76 t of urea — World benchmark prices, 2020-08.