Working on Creative Solutions

Specialty crop producers are continuing to scramble to source containers to ship their products overseas. At the Transportation Go! Conference in Minneapolis, Specialty Soya and Grains Alliance Chair Bryan Severs said creative solutions are being investigated. “We’re trying to get containers from maybe Los Angeles or farther away to the Midwest to help us haul our I-P crops to our buyers.” International demand for identity-preserved soybeans and other food-grade products remains strong. However, it can be a challenge moving those specialty crops from the land-locked Midwest to the coast. “Yes, location is a challenge. We had a presentation about the St. Lawrence Seaway so we’d like to see that work with all the ports here in the Upper Midwest. It would be nice to be able to use that to head to the East Coast ocean.”