National Ag News

Cuban farmers are curious about how the U.S. raises livestock.

Minnesota Farm Bureau president Kevin Paap recently returned from a trade visit to Cuba, and says there was a lot of good discussion with producers from the island country.

“A lot of questions about different techniques and how we raise our livestock, what we feed our pigs, and what kinds of rate-of-gain are there.”

Cattle, pigs and chicken are the main types of livestock in Cuba, which imports between 70 and 80 percent of all food its people eat.

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