date:Mar 05, 2014
At one time, U.S. corn exports to Egypt and the rest of North Africa had a 90% share of that market. But as Ukraine's agriculture has modernized on its rich soils, American farmers lost all but a tenth of that market--until Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, shook the world by taking over Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.
U.S. Grains Council president and CEO Tom Sleight sees more U.S. corn currently heading to North Africa and expects that the U.S. might regain another 10% to 20% of that market, f