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.”