I am so proud of Marri Carrow, U.S. Grains Council, who is streaming live from Japan as I write this post. We had a very short phone walk through of Ustream.tv right before she left and she got it. Well done. I think we’ll see more groups using this great tool. I think I hear her snapping photos too! I’m sure we’ll see them appear in the USGC Flickr account.

Representatives from the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, Iowa Corn Growers Association, Iowa Farm Bureau and the U.S. Grains Council gathered in Japan this week for a series of site visits, business meetings and to participate in the Partners-in-Agriculture events. For more than 50 years, the United States and Japan have enjoyed a partnership that has yielded more than $280 billion in sales of U.S. food and agricultural products to Japan, creating a relationship that has helped cater to the needs of Japanese consumers while fueling the U.S. economy.

The feed looks and sounds great. She’s also there with good friend, Sally Behringer, Nicholson Kovac. I knew that since one of the speakers mentioned her name.