Mr Daniels farms Theresa Downs, about 30km north of Emerald, with his parents Larry and Nancy Daniels, and wife Catherine.

The 4700-hectare Theresa Downs is a mixed-enterprise operation, with about 2300ha of dryland cropping country and about 200 breeders.

Mr Daniels said on the back of this season, they would likely skip a spring plant and put about 1200ha of sorghum in the ground this coming summer.

Mr Daniels said the Pacific Seeds variety, Buster, was probably their favourite, but they may also go with some Dominator - an HSR variety.

However, he said this season their most successful variety was Pacific Seeds MR-32.

Mr Daniels said it took about seven weeks to harvest their sorghum this season, which they finished in the third week of July.

But the lengthy harvest was worth it - the yield of 3.6 tonnes/ha for the 1750ha harvested this year was a record for Theresa Downs.

Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation Emerald-based extension officer Max Quinlivan said while mung beans had enjoyed a stellar season this year price and yield-wise, sorghum would remain the primary crop for the coming summer plant.

"Sorghum will be the main dryland crop by far, but mung beans are again going to be a major secondary crop," he said.

"Some people are getting interested in corn and maize, particularly up north where they've got some deep soil, north of Capella and mostly on the alluvial country."

Mr Quinlivan said weed and grass control would be the key to a good sorghum crop next year.

"That's something people need to think about in summer crops - what is their grass/weed bank like," he said.

Mr Quinlivan said one weed in particular which growers would need to keep an eye on was sweet summer grass.

"We can't get control of it in sorghum crops and it is a prolific seeder," he said.

Mr Quinlivan said diversification is important.

"It comes down to diversification - don't put all your eggs in one basket," he said.