Morocco Corn Mission Comments
Posted: December 7, 2009
The Morocco portion of the U.S Grains Council Corn Mission has concluded and the team is now in Egypt. While in Morocco, the group toured a cattle feedlot, poultry operation and shipping port, and met with many government and agricultural representatives. Among them was Abdelali Aziz, General Director for the Moroccan Office of Cereals, who is pictured here on the right next to Wisconsin corn grower Joe Zenz.
Agwired’s Chuck Zimmerman, who has been blogging the trip, interviewed Joe when they were leaving Morocco to get his impressions about what they saw and heard as it relates to the potential for U.S. corn exports. Joe says he sees great potential in the Morocco market, but he thinks producers still have a lot to learn about production and the USGC is playing a key role in providing educational resources. In the future, Joe thinks there’s a lot of market potential with DDGs by setting up some trials to show producers how well it can perform.
Listen to Chuck’s interview with Joe here:
Chuck is also taking numerous photos on the Corn Mission and putting them in separate Flickr photo albums for each country, which can be viewed by clicking on the links below.
