The Illinois Agricultural Leadership Program (IALP) Class of 2016 participants recently broadened their awareness of social, political, trade and cultural issues in Japan and Panama. The “Ron and Melanie Warfield International Perspectives Seminar” included presentations by 12 speakers at the ...
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International Study Seminar – Day 2, Japan
Tuesday, February 23
Kyle Sheaffer, Marc Bremer, & Grant Noland - Presiding Fellows
Today was an interesting trip to a soybean importer and Tofu manufacturer. We started the day by taking a bus south to Yokohama, where we visited Nisshin OilliO. This company is currently the world’s ...
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International Study Seminar – Day 1, Japan
Monday, February 22, 2016
Julie Wankel, Steve Bridge, AJ Woodyard - Presiding Fellows
It is a nice cool day in Japan, after a delicious buffet breakfast at our hotel, we boarded our tour bus for the U.S. Embassy where we had an excellent introduction to many of the key elements in regard ...
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Day 0 – International Study Seminar Departure & Arrival
Editor's note: this post was written at 8:00am on Monday, February 22 – which would have been 5:00pm Sunday, February 21 in Illinois.
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Matt Kellogg & Joe Zumwalt, Presiding Fellows
Welcome to the IALP 2016 International Study Seminar. As many of you know, we are traveling to ...
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Huge Win For Hog Farmers
Randolph County Circuit Court Judge Marianne L. Vorhees dismissed the case against Maxwell Farms of Indiana and local farmers in late January, granting summary judgment after finding no evidence of negligence on the part of Maxwell Farms or its contracted operators. Four similar nuisance suits ...
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