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La Filipina Tour

www.lfug.com.ph La Filipina, located at the Port of Manila imports 100 percent U.S. Soybean Meal. Top notch operation.


Please see there website.

Jeepney

Jeepneys are the most popular form of public transportation in the Philippines. They were originally made from us military jeeps left over from wwII



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Everlast feed mill

Everlast feed mill is a coop of farmers in the Batangas region south of Manila. here they are loading out product to be delivered to a farm in this region. This particular load was going to a 20,000 broiler poultry operation. These workers loading are paid weekly (5 Day week) earning about $3000 peso or roughly $14/day U.S.

Fighting feed

Jetbest supplies the Philippines with a feed to enhance poultry strength, especially for fighting animals which is a large market. This feed is sold to vendors in 50 lb. bags and is then sold to individuals on a 1 kilo basis in the local market. This goes along with other buying needs of the Philippine consumer as they only buy what they need for that day. No sams club or Cosco here.......


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Unloading ddg container

Goes with other photo. This was the only work being done at the mill today. Very gracious of jet best to host us on a holiday.
These products are stored in bags, in the warehouse, then dumped into mixers with other products for complete feeds. Very labor intensive process.

Jet best feed mill tour

Very clean facility.

Wed 11/30 dinner

Hog roast dinner with Philippine farmers and feed millers. Great experience meeting and interacting with farmers across the world that share the same passion for farming and providing for others. 85 percent poultry and about 15 percent pork operations in this region. The poultry consists mainly of broilers.


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Catholic church

We stopped by this historic church between feed mill visits. The Philippine population is predominately catholic. This is different than indonesia where over 90 percent of its population is Muslim making raw soybeans more important for food consumption there. US soymeal is preferred in the phillipines because of its quality over other countries and it's importance in the poultry and livestock feed ration. Both key protein sources in the Filipino diet.





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Tony Chua dinner party

As you can tell, This is certainly not your normal filapino house.
He has a squash court that you can see off in the background as well. This meal was prepared by Tony's wife. The philippine people are very welcoming and genuine people. Most speak very good English making the communication barrier much easier

Unloading container of distillers grain

Got it to work, goes with above narrative.


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Wed 11/30 technical difficulties.

Feed mill visit Jet best feeds distributes to over 600 farmer/retailers in the rural Batangas region. Today was a national holiday in the Philippines and the mills were not running. They were unloading product though as they had 14 trucks in line waiting to offload bags and bulk containers ( by hand of course)
I am having trouble with the blog pRees app on my phone and am unable to upload photos. Trying to figure it out.

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Traffic

On Tuesday we were guests at the home of Tony Chua owner of Great Harvest, a trading/brokerage firm of feed ingredients. They are a very good customer to U.S. Soybean meal, no indication for that to change It was a wonderful seafood buffet followed by conversation and karaoke. I did my part and sang "sweet Caroline" for the U.S. Delegation. As I don't think they would have let us leave without singing. They were also other industry partners and feed millers present.

The traffic is horrific between 7am till about 9pm.

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Safe Arrival

Good Morning.  We have arrived safely in Manila, getting in last night around 12 30 am.  We are staying in the downtown business district of Makati.  This part of the city is fairly westernized with many skyscrapers, shopping malls, and fast food restaurants.  |This area is also undergoing much new construction.  Will update later after our first day.  Manila Population estimated around 18 million with the entire island of the Philippines comprised of nearly 100 million.

Nice to arrive at for night to get in sync, also traffic from airport not as hectic.

Brent kohls