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Cuban market potential is big for agriculture

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Approximately 50 percent of the Illinois corn crop is exported.  Kenneth Hartman, Illinois Corn Growers president says this week’s announcement to normalize trade relations with Cuba is a good move for agriculture.  “I think it’s a big positive for any farmer,” he says.

And,  it’s a market that is easily accessible.  “When you look at it we’re directly right down the river and then into Cuba,” he says.

Hartman tells Brownfield the US has been battling with Cuba for many years.  “I don’t think that we’ve hurt the people as far as the Cuban government,” he says.  “All we’re hurting is our own industry as far as exporting product to them and the impoverished people of Cuba.”

Earlier this week President Obama announced actions to improve trade and business relations with Cuba.

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