Re: Ship-load of grain to arrive Port of Bellingham (WA)
Author: ron
Date: 09-26-2017 - 15:51
Shipping news Wrote:
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> I had no idea we import grain from Turkey. Is it
> more profitable for US farmers to grow garbage
> crops for feed and ethanol production than for
> food? Apparently so.
> The corn and soybeans are coming from Turkey, a
> major exporter of organic products to the U.S.
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The feed mills in the Petaluma area served by the NWP have seen carloads go down and truckloads go up as they import more and more "organic " grain mostly from China via trucked in containers . This has been going on for 5 or 6 years.