The Specialty Soya and Grains Alliance named Rob Prather of Global Processing as its new board chair and voted in a new member to its board of directors.
The Specialty Soya and Grains Alliance named Rob Prather of Global Processing as its new board chair and voted in a new member to its board of directors.
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U.S. ag associations calling on Biden administration to use government tools to stem current ocean carrier practices.
Seventy-one agricultural associations are calling for President Biden to intervene in a shipping container crisis that has injured food and other U.S. ag and forestry.
In the letter sent Wednesday, the group requested that provisions available to the Federal Maritime Commission via the Shipping Act and other government tools “be immediately applied to stem the current ocean carrier practices that are so damaging to our agricultural products.”
CNBC reported in January that shipping carriers rejected U.S. agricultural export containers worth millions of dollars during October and November, instead sending empty containers to China to be filled with more profitable Chinese exports. U.S. agricultural exporters petitioned the Federal Maritime Commission, which launched an investigation.