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This article talks about Kirk Liefer, a soybeam, wheat and corn farmer who trades his products nationally and internationally. He is in the Illinois Agricultural Leadership Program and will travel to Japan in 2016. He has previously traveled to Brazil with the Illinois Farm Bureau's Young Leader Program to learn about global markets. In general the article suggests how International trade enhances culture and how education and travelling is important to understand and work with different nations and consumers.

TOKYO -- Thanks to the efforts of strawberry growers, scallop catchers and others to promote their wares overseas, Japanese exports of fresh food have grown by leaps and bounds, especially in Asia. Japan's January-July exports of farm produce jumped 40% from the year-earlier period to around 18 billion yen ($148 million), according to the agriculture ministry.

The Solar Trade Association has claimed that as many as 27,000 jobs could be lost if the government presses ahead with plans to cut the feed-in tariff by 87% after commissioning analysis by TBR Economic Research.