The Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission (KGSC) continues to invest grower checkoff dollars in the industry’s top priorities: research, promotion, and market development. A new video produced with visual marketing agency Middle highlights this mission and the farmer leaders working on behalf of Kansas sorghum growers.
The Commission’s FY2025 annual report offers a transparent look at these efforts, detailing production data and how checkoff funds support the state’s sorghum industry. In 2025, Kansas growers harvested 252 million bushels with record-setting quality. To support that production, KGSC directed more than $1.2 million toward initiatives that strengthen profitability, crop improvement, and market demand.
Highlights include launching the next decade of the Collaborative Sorghum Investment Program (CSIP 2.0), a $6 million partnership with the State of Kansas and the United Sorghum Checkoff Program to accelerate sorghum genetic innovation in Manhattan. The Commission also partnered with national and international organizations to host buyers from nearly two dozen countries during the 2025 Export Sorghum Conference in San Antonio—the largest inbound trade mission in the Commission’s 50-year history.
Additional investments support advanced genomics research, livestock nutrition studies, extension programming, market development, water initiatives, and educational programs that connect future leaders to sorghum and Kansas agriculture.
