All commodities rely on USDA Foreign Market Development and Market Access Program funding to expand trade. Approximately $200 million is available each year. “It’s a very small share of the overall farm bill budget, but critically important for us as producers because for every dollar we put in, it is leveraged with FMD/MAP funding to help do international market development,” said Jim Peterson, policy and marketing director, North Dakota Wheat Commission. More resources are being sought in the new farm bill for these programs. “It’ll be a challenge with the current deficit and other pressures in the farm bill from the nutrition side, but we’re very hopeful because it’s been since 2002 since there’s been an increase in (funding for) those programs.” Peterson was part of the annual winter meetings of the National Association of Wheat Growers and U.S. Wheat Associates.
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