An Asia Pacific trade team is in Iowa today visiting a pair of ethanol plants, touring some farms and a feed mill center in Grinnell. Iowa Corn Board Promotion Director Roger Zylstra is hosting the group of high level government and industry representatives on his farm near Lynnville. He says they’re mainly interested in dried distillers grains.
He says this visit takes on high importance given the recent trade tensions between the U.S. and China and gives the Iowa growers a chance to reestablish good relations with the Asian Pacific nations.
Zylstra says the Iowa Corn Promotion Board works with the U.S. Grains Council on hosting these visits.
The trade group is also scheduled to stop at the Iowa Corn office as well as Iowa State University in Ames.
