U.S. farm leaders meet with Cuba’s president at U.N.

U.S. farm leaders meet with Cuba’s president at U.N.

A group of U.S. ag leaders met with Cuba’s new president at the United Nations this week. Mark Albertson with the Illinois Soybean Association was one of them. He says they talked with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal who is very interested in more ag trade with the U.S. but also wanted to thank the ag leaders for exporting food to his country.

Albertson says the U.S. exported $50 Million dollars of soybeans to Cuba last year, but, “That could have been $150-Million because Brazil and Argentina, they’re exporting soy and soybean meal to Cuba.

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