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Soybean grower gets ‘the news I hoped to hear’ in China
A soybean grower on a trade mission to China says he feels
good about the meetings he’s had with Chinese soybean buyers. Iowa grower Lindsay
Greiner of Keota tells Brownfield from a stop in Shanghai that the news he’s
getting is what he hoped to hear.
“We want to get back to doing business together,” Greiner told Brownfield in a
call from the large port city on China’s East Coast. “I think that’s positive news
for soybean farmers and I think it’s positive news for soybean buyers in China.”
The trade delegation, including Greiner and other Iowa Soybean Association
leaders, meets with Chinese buyers through this week. He spoke.
Greiner – president of the Iowa Soybean Association – says he doesn’t expect to
have the same impact that U.S. negotiators have in Beijing trade talks this
week, however “I think we can have an impact in maintaining these relationships
that we’ve spent 30 years building over here,” he said, speaking to Brownfield late
Wednesday evening Shanghai time. “From that standpoint I think we can do some good.”
As an out grower officer doing soya with smallholder farmers, This is good news. Soya Marketing has been the biggest challenge leading to farmer descouragement
Just hope for the best