FOOD FORWARD PULSES & BEYOND STEVE BALASKI NWSA
Is there anything you would like to raise awareness about within the pulses community? I’d like to bring awareness of the importance of the logistics chain and the role ports play in it and encourage investment in ports and transportation infrastructure. It might not be the most exciting part of the supply chain but it is critically important. The USA transport network and infrastructure is what makes us more competitive, for example with countries like Brazil in crops like soybeans. Improving the transport network can make getting pulses to market more efficient and cheaper. You need great infrastructure to feed the world and get the food where it needs to go. I’d encourage the pulses community to be supportive of efforts to improve the infrastructure, that’s my soap box item! The shippers and exporters have a bigger voice than we do so we’d be grateful for
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