Hoosiers Confident China Will Buy More Corn
by Gary Truitt (Hoosier Ag Today) After a Sunday touring Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China, it was back to work Monday for the delegates on the Indiana Agricultural, Jobs and Investment Trade Mission.
…Next was a meeting with Sino Grain, China’s grain reserves corporation. Officials there said numerous times their country doesn’t rule out the possibility of imports of US corn in the future, especially if weather would cut into their domestic production. But at every stop during the trade mission the delegation becomes more convinced that this country needs our corn.
“It is absolutely obvious that as the Chinese citizens become ever more affluent, and they start switching from vegetable to animal-based proteins, there is no way that China can maintain its production capacities and ability to supply corn, which is a huge opportunity for the Indiana farmer,” Henderson said. READ MORE
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