The Gateway to Trade With Africa

USDA hosted its first-ever trade mission to Morocco this past week. Nearly 50 agribusiness companies and farm organizations, and 14 state departments of agriculture were on the trip. North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring participated. Morocco is the second-largest export market for U.S. agriculture in Africa and wants to do more direct marketing with U.S. farmers. “Wheat and durum wheat, along with the pulse crops, the peas, the lentils, the chickpeas, the dry beans, we have such opportunities,” said Goehring. “There’s even some work being talked about and being done in seed potatoes, feedgrains; you can’t even overstate this. The fact that the facility we visited and the customer base they have is awesome.”