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Resolved export issues help economy

USDA estimates it freed up $4 billion in agricultural exports last year.

February 23, 2013

USDA says it resolved dozens of export issues in 2012 that freed up an estimated $4 billion in agricultural exports last year, protecting roughly 30,000 American jobs in the process. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the effort required constant monitoring of world markets to ensure the trade system stayed open and fair. The monitoring effort included working to eliminate barriers, open new markets, secure the release of US shipments detained at foreign ports, and ensure the safe movement of agricultural products.

Wayne Labs has more than 30 years of editorial experience in industrial automation. He served as senior technical editor for I&CS/Control Solutions magazine for 18 years where he covered software, control system hardware and sensors/transmitters. Labs ran his own consulting business and contributed feature articles to Electronic Design, Control, Control Design, Industrial Networking and Food Engineering magazines. Before joining Food Engineering, he served as a senior technical editor for Omega Engineering Inc. Labs also worked in wireless systems and served as a field engineer for GE’s Mobile Communications Division and as a systems engineer for Bucks County Emergency Services. In addition to writing technical feature articles, Wayne covers FE’s Engineering R&D section.

Resolved export issues help economy

USDA estimates it freed up $4 billion in agricultural exports last year.

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