State agriculture departments in Illinois and Missouri are promoting seedstock cattle to a group of foreign buyers this week. The trade mission has brought Mexican buyers to Missouri and Illinois cattle operations. Bobby Dowson with the Illinois Ag Department says it’s a great way to share resources and grow markets for producers in both states,“This is a U.S. livestock genetic partnership. Federal monies. They give us those monies and we can take two states together and just time and resources are considered – and we can go to multiple herds in both states.
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