It seems amazing to think it is cost effective to export “hay” from Arizona across the oceans.
Okay, I can see how this offsets a lot of transportation cost.
http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=17566
Greater than 99% of US hay exports are from the western ports of Seattle/Tacoma, Portland, Oakland, and Long Beach/Los Angeles. The southern port of Long Beach/LA tends to be favored due to high volume of trade there, and the resulting large volume of ‘empties’ sent back to Asia from that port, resulting in less expensive shipping costs.