Corn Greetings in Austria

The International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) are meeting this year in Austria and Slovenia for their annual congress. As we arrived in Graz yesterday and headed from the airport to the hotel, the first landscape that greeted us was corn. Even though they are farther north latitude-wise than even Minnesota, their corn is pretty close to harvest at this point.

Once we checked in, we found a Kornland yogurt bar awaiting us on the pillows of our hotel room bed. This Austrian company makes lots of grain-based products like cereals and granola bars. These bars are made with corn flakes and oats and topped with a yogurt cream. Not bad when you are starving after a 22 hour trip!

Our host for this year’s IFAJ Congress is former European Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler who we plan to interview to get his thoughts on the current state of world trade negotiations.