www.thegrainboard.com<\/a>. In Panama, they highlighted visits to a fish market, the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second-largest grain container port, the canal, shrimp production center, rice milling plant, and even an iguana producer.<\/p>\n They also gained practical experience building relationships while touring a secondary school that provides an agricultural curriculum. There, each I-CAL member presented a bag of biotech rice to a local farmer in a ceremony that drew interviews and media coverage by Panamanian radio and television.<\/p>\n
In addition to filing daily reports, class members integrate their observations from each visit into a broader understanding through a debriefing process at the end of each country visit. As Caleb Wurth from Kansas State University and Kelli Fulkerson from South Dakota State University concluded after the Panama experience, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Freight transportation is all about volume economics\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Amazing day here in Panama.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd<\/p>\n
Chairman Fruth reminds Council members to support this and other Foundation programs at the Council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 51st Annual Board of Delegates meeting this July. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I hope you plan to support this valuable program by attending the Foundation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wine tasting fundraiser this July in San Francisco,\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd he said. Click here for details.<\/p>\n
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