Mile 163.8 - LBD Zen-Noh Grain
163.8 LBD Zen-Noh Grain
Zen-Noh (Zenkoku N?gy?) is the National Federation of Agricultural Co-operative Associations is also the federation of agricultural cooperatives in Japan formed in 1972. ZEN-NOH consists of 1,173 agricultural cooperatives and federations that in 2004 had a combined revenue of $53.8 billion (USD). ZEN-NOH is involved in the marketing, tracking, and quality assurance of the products of its cooperatives. ZEN-NOH is one of the world's largest importers of animal feeds and agricultural fertilizers. Here grain grown in the mid-western U.S. is loaded onto ships and sent out to the world (presumably much to Japan). (Paul Orr)