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Ontario Agricultural College researcher Dr. Alfons Weersink discussed the first grain shipment from Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February with CBC News Network.
The shipment, headed to Lebanon, “offers a sign of hope that things are opening up” for countries reliant on grain imports.
A professor in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Weersink researches the feasibility of new agricultural technology and policy.