Source: Chuck Abbott, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 6/15/22

The United States will build temporary grain silos on the border of Ukraine and Poland to help overcome a logistical barrier to exporting Ukrainian grain by rail, President Biden announced on Tuesday. “I’m working closely with our European partners to get 20 million tons of grains locked in Ukraine out onto the market to help bring down food prices,” he said. Ukraine ordinarily is one of the leading wheat suppliers to the world market, the No. 1 exporter of sunflower oil and a large corn exporter as well. But its Black Sea ports are closed due to a blockade that followed Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.

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