The Michigan Soybean Committee expects a new maritime container terminal on Lake Erie to move more agricultural goods through the St. Lawerence Seaway.
Demand specialist Hanna Campbell tells Brownfield a federal port infrastructure grant for the Port of Monroe, located between Detroit and Toledo, will increase export efficiencies.
“The Saint Lawrence Seaway is extremely underutilized, only about 50 percent utilization on that shipping way,” she says. “Being able to just increase the diversity of the way that we’re able to export our goods is always a great thing for our farmers.”
Campbell says specialty products that are shipped in containers, like non-GMO and tofu soybeans, will directly benefit from the new facility.
