Irish cattle chow down on Canadian corn

Three-quarters of corn exports this year have headed for Ireland

Canada’s bountiful corn harvest is flowing across the Atlantic into feed rations for Ireland’s cattle herd, even as exporters struggle to move other crops through the bottlenecked Canadian transportation system. Canada, which was a net corn importer until recent years, reaped a record 14.2-million-tonne corn crop in 2013. Most of the crop stays where it