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Published December 07, 2011, 12:00 AM

Obermoller in Vietnam

Ron Obermoller, a board member of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association, recently took a trip to Vietnam for a governor's trade mission.


A fishing village in Ha Long Bay is surrounded by beautiful limestone outcroppings in the Indian Ocean. (Submitted photo)

  • A fishing village in Ha Long Bay is surrounded by beautiful limestone outcroppings in the Indian Ocean. (Submitted photo)
  • A fishing boat in Ha Long Bay. (Submitted photo)
  • Corn dries in the sun after being harvested from a rare corn field in Vietnam. (Submitted photo)
  • A Vietnamese worker steps across bags of grain delivered into the port. (Submitted photo)
  • A fishing village in Ha Long Bay is surrounded by beautiful limestone outcroppings in the Indian Ocean. (Submitted photo)
  • Fishing village in Ha Long Bay. (Submitted photo)
  • Boats travel across the water in one of the many scenes captured during Obermoller's visit to Vietnam. (Submitted photo)
  • Rice paddies in Vietnam. (Submitted photo)
  • Scooters are everywhere in the major cities of Vietnam. (Submitted photo)
  • Vietnamese people practically live on their scooters. (Submitted photo)
  • Fields in Vietnam. (Submitted photo)
  • Shown here is a soybean crush facility in Vietnam. It was built from designs crafted by a Minnesota company. (Submitted photo)
  • Ron Obermoller (center) inspects product at the soybean crush facility they toured in Vietnam. (Submitted photo)
  • Scooters are the most common mode of transportation in Vietnam's largest cities. (Submitted photo)
  • Minnesota participants Kurt Kruger (left) of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association, Charlie Poster of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and Sam Baidoo of the University of Minnesota talk to a street vendor about produce. (Submitted photo)
  • Many of the homes offered fruits and vegetables for sale each day. (Submitted Photo)