By Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Field Leader, a project of the Ohio Soybean Council and Soybean Check-off
Farmers know that for something to grow, you need to first plant the seed. The same can be said for growing trade relationships. The first step is to plant the seed. Recently, an Ohio Soybean farmer helped to plant some seeds on his farm when a trade team made up of buyers from Southeast Asia visited the Buckeye State.
Bennett Musselman currently serves as Vice President of the Ohio Soybean Association and is a farmer in Pickaway County. He hosted a Southeast Asian trade team on his farm as they visited with the Ohio Department of Agriculture, and also made stops at Consolidated Grain and Barge CBG, Centerra Co-op, and the Ohio State University CFAES. The group comprised 17 feed and food i