Alice Mannette
Pratt Tribune
The Gamble family are once again winners. For the past 11 years, at least one member of this Greensburg family has won the National Sorghum Producers Yield Contest.
Kim and Ki Gamble, along with their adult children, Kasey Gamble and Katelynn Alderrfer, work hard planting and growing their crops on their 10,000-acre farm. Ki Gamble, a fourth-generation farmer, said growing sorghum or, as he calls it, milo is just what the family does.
The national winners of the sorghum contest were recently released, and this year s national winners included Kim and Kasey. Although there might be a different name on the winner s slots, the four family members farm alongside one another, putting their heads together when growing their crops.
SUCCESS OF 2020: Chad Dane has been pleasantly surprised at the profitability of sorghum. A Nebraska farmer describes his successes and challenges in raising a high-yielding crop.
Chad Dane has experienced a nice run of national rankings in the National Sorghum Producers annual yield contest.
Dane, who farms 3,600 acres in Clay County, placed second nationally and first in Nebraska in the Irrigated-West category of the 2020 national contest with a yield of 208.47 bushels. So far, Dane has placed second nationally twice, third once and fourth once in the contest.
“We typically grow our sorghum around our seed corn production fields,” Dane says. “What was once just a few pivot corners has grown for us over the last few years.”