Mark your calendars for the U.S. Grains Council’s International Coarse Grains and Co-products Marketing Conference to be held October 7-8, 2010, in Chicago. The Council is organizing this conference to bring U.S. coarse grains and co-products producers and marketers face-to-face with their major export customers. The Council will bring approximately 140 key foreign buyers to the two-day conference that will focus on issues relating to the international trade of U.S. coarse grains and their co-products.

Speakers and panelists will address the following topics:

The U.S. Grains Council selected Troy Skarke, sorghum farmer from Claude, Texas, and Greg Graff, farmer from Marienthal, Kan., for its nomination for the appointment to the open At-Large position on the United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board of Directors. As a certified producer organization, the Council is eligible to bring the slate of candidates forward for consideration at the National Sorghum Caucus on March 16. The Caucus will then forward possible candidates to the

By Cary Sifferath, U.S. Grains Council Senior Director in China

FOODEX is the largest annual food expo in Japan, drawing more than 2,000 exhibitors from 60 countries and regions and 85,000 attendees. The U.S. Grains Council’s Japan office hosted a booth at the show and also participated in a cooking demonstration, where U.S. barley, corn meal and white sorghum recipes were showcased.

As part its mission of Developing Markets, Enabling Trade and Improving Lives, the U.S. Grains Council continuously seeks market opportunities for U.S. corn, sorghum, barley and their co-products around the world. The snack foods industry in Central America is a growing and vital market segment. Due to relations made at the USGC 2009 International Marketing Conference, several teams made of Central American snack food industry representatives have

Event Brings Together U.S. and Japanese Government and Agribusiness Industry Leaders to Discuss How to Feed a Growing World