By Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Field Leader, a project of the Ohio Soybean Council and Soybean Check-off

Recently, 29 farmers and staff from 12 different qualified soybean states in the United States traveled to South Korea and Japan to learn about how the U.S. Soy Export Council (USSEC) functions and helps market Ohio and U.S. soybeans to other countries internationally. Kiley Holbrook, policy and demand coordinator at the Ohio Soybean Council, and Mackenzie Joseph, communications coordinator at the Ohio Soybean Council, were among the participants.

The group observed how U.S. soy was used across the supply chain. One stop was at the Incheon Port in Seoul, South Korea. That facility handles more than 3.5 million containers a year, which includes shipping soy products. They toured a CJ CheilJ

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