Two teams of feed grain industry importers – from South America and China – are in Minneapolis for Export Exchange before heading to the southern U.S. to meet with suppliers and exporters of U.S. corn, its co-products and sorghum.
Export Exchange is a biennial educational and trade forum for U.S. feed grains that will host approximately 200 international buyers and end-users organized into 21 U.S. Grains Council (USGC) trade teams.Both teams will meet with U.S. suppliers and get a chance to learn about current supply and demand for U.S. feed products.
The Council is working with the teams in cooperation with the United Sorghum Checkoff Program (USCP).
"We are excited to host the upcoming trade teams and grow our network at Export Exchange 2018 as sorghum exports have represented a large portion of the U.S. sorghum marketplace over the last few years," said Florentino Lopez, Sorghum Checkoff executive director. "The Sorghum Checkoff is dedicated to building strong relationships between buyers and sellers, resulting in continued sorghum sales."
Export Exchange issponsored by the USGC, the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy, allowing these buyers to meet with U.S. sellers of corn, sorghum, barley, distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS), corn gluten meal and corn gluten feed.
“At a time when the U.S is looking to create new trade agreements, highlighting the importance of international trade can be no better illustrated than by Export Exchange and the trade team visits before and after the event,” said Jim Stitzlein, USGC chairman.
“It is essential for us to strengthen the bonds between suppliers and partner countries, and the connections made at this critical event will not only help propel our industry this year, but for years to come.”
In addition to networking opportunities, these attendeestraveling to Export Exchangewill be briefed on the global supply and demand situation, transportation issues and challenges, the global grains outlook,new advances in DDGS and poultry, food safety regulations, and agribusiness, the current U.S. policy environment and more.
Export Exchange also highlights the importance of strong trade policy and market development to U.S. agriculture. The Council, in partnership with USCP, works in more than 50 countries and the European Union to market U.S. grains and their related products and build long-term demand from loyal customers.
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