Sorghum ports and hubs in North America
12 ports and hubs in North America handle sorghum, across 2 countries: Mexico and United States. Grades: Grain Sorghum.
ExportImportCrushing / transitInland river
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Grades
- Grain Sorghum - Feed and food grain sorghum (milo). The United States, Australia and Argentina are the export origins, China and Japan the main importers; across the Sahel and East Africa it is a staple food crop. Specified on moisture, test weight, foreign material and tannin.
Ports and hubs (12)
| Hub | Country | Type | Grades handled |
|---|---|---|---|
| Culiacan (Sinaloa) Culiacan Centre of Sinaloa, Mexico's main commercial white maize state, growing about 70% of the autumn-winter crop under irrigation. Also grows sorghum. | Mexico | Inland hub Export | Grain Sorghum |
| Port of Progreso (Yucatan) Progreso Yucatan's port at the end of a long offshore pier; Mexico's second grain import port, feeding the peninsula's poultry and pig industries. | Mexico | Seaport Import | Grain Sorghum |
| Port of Topolobampo (Sinaloa) Topolobampo Northern Sinaloa port serving one of Mexico's most productive farm zones. Exports wheat, sorghum and soybeans, and is being positioned for sorghum shipments to China. | Mexico | Seaport Export | Grain Sorghum |
| Port of Veracruz Veracruz Mexico's main grain import port, taking around half of the country's seaborne bulk grain and most of its imported maize by ship, mostly from the US Gulf. | Mexico | Seaport Import | Grain Sorghum |
| Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) Amarillo Centre of the Texas Panhandle, where wheat and sorghum are grown and the feedlots and dairies are among the largest in the US. The feed industry's demand outruns local crops, so maize arrives by rail from the Corn Belt. | United States | Inland hub Import | Grain Sorghum |
| Enid (Oklahoma) Enid Known as the 'Wheat Capital' of the United States for its terminal elevators, among the largest grain storage concentrations in the world. Hard red winter wheat moves by rail to the Texas Gulf ports. | United States | Inland hub Export | Grain Sorghum |
| Hutchinson (Kansas) Hutchinson Central Kansas terminal market in the hard red winter wheat belt, with large rail terminal elevators (Cargill Hutchinson East handles wheat, maize, sorghum and soybeans). Wheat moves by rail to the Texas Gulf. | United States | Inland hub Export | Grain Sorghum |
| Kansas City Kansas City The principal cash and futures pricing point for hard red winter wheat, on the Missouri River at the eastern edge of the southern Plains wheat belt. | United States | Inland hub Inland river | Grain Sorghum |
| Lower Mississippi / New Orleans New Orleans The largest grain export gateway in the United States. River elevators between Baton Rouge and the Gulf load ocean vessels from barges brought down the Mississippi, and carry the bulk of US corn and soybean exports. | United States | River port Export | Grain Sorghum |
| Omaha (Nebraska) Omaha Rail and trading centre for Nebraska and western Iowa maize and soybeans, on the Union Pacific main line to the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf; Nebraska is also a leading ethanol and DDGS producer. | United States | Inland hub Export | Grain Sorghum |
| Port of Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Texas Gulf port with a public grain elevator, shipping sorghum, maize and wheat from south Texas and the Plains; a main US port for sorghum exports. | United States | Seaport Export | Grain Sorghum |
| Texas Gulf (Houston) Houston Texas Gulf export elevators on the Houston Ship Channel, loading hard red winter wheat, corn and sorghum drawn from the southern Plains by rail. | United States | Seaport Export | Grain Sorghum |