(NAFB) – Export Exchange will return next year, as organizers announced the event this week planned for October 12-14, 2022, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The dates were announced in a joint statement, including U.S. Grains Council President and CEO Ryan LeGrand, Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor, and Renewable Fuels Association President Geoff Cooper.

The statement says, “COVID dictated we cancel Export Exchange in 2020, and sadly, we have officially canceled it once again for 2021,” while noting its return in 2022.

The groups say Export Exchange allows overseas attendees the opportunity to build relationships with U.S. suppliers of distiller’s dried grains with solubles, or DDGS, corn, sorghum, barley and other commodities, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in grain sales. Export Exchange, the biennial event co-sponsored by the Council, RFA and Growth Energy, is expected to bring together 200 international buyers and end-users of coarse grains and co-products, with approximately 300 U.S. suppliers and agribusiness representatives.