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Class of 2000 International Travel Seminar
Class Diary |
Date: 2/24/2000 |
IALP Class of 2000 |
Hamburg, Germany |
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 Day 6 in our German adventure takes us from a
fast growing city to a historic 800 year old port city in the northern part of Germany.
The port of Hamburg provides about 140,000 jobs for the local economy. Ship building and
transfers of bulk commodities, fuel and motor vehicles accounting for most of the
activity. Environmental group Greenpeace, has their European headquarters based here. |
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 A visit to the ADM oilseed crushing plant
provides our group the chance to board an offloading vessel which held 2.3 million bushels
of US origin soybeans. This facility has a daily crush capacity of 10,000 metric tons of
oilseeds. Consumer demand for non-gmo vegetable oil has allowed crush operations to
include an increasing amount of rapeseed (canola). Soymeal output from this plant is used
throughout the EU and the oil is exported to Asia. |
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Final stop for the day was at the headquarters of
A.C. Toepfer, with briefings on their affiliations with ADM and other world shareholders.
Andreas Pilzecker also briefed us on agenda 2000 which reduces subsides to European
farmers  and the GMO issue. Jeffrey Jones, Director U.S. Agricultural Trade Office,
Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) briefed us on the function of FAS and how they work to
open up trade for Agricultural products. Dieter Kundrun, Director North European Area for
American Soybean Association (ASA) then briefed us on the function of the ASA and how they
work to develop markets for the American soybean farmer. Dieter made arrangements
for supper for the group at an European microbrewery and a social evening was enjoyed by
all with Dieter and Jeffrey. |
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