5-11 IAN Chinese Importing

 The Chinese are importing… Our stuff. We are all so familiar with the phrase made in China. When I was a kid it was made in Japan. But this is getting ridiculous. Can’t Americans make anything? Ahhh Yes, the ag  sector does it again. I was reminded of that the other day  while I was talking with Aidan Connolly, vice president of corporate accounts at Alltech and he surprised me by telling me that the import  game has started to go in the opposite direction:

“They are increasingly importing from the United States, they are importing corn, they are importing soybeans in particular and they are increasingly taking the waste product of ethanol which are called dry distillers grains. Those containers bringing all of those products over to Walmart in the United States are going back with the dry distillers grains in them, corn, soy, I even have seen farms in China importing alfalfa hay from the United States. So China is importing large amounts of material food and feed ingredients from the United States.”