Throughout the past five years, U.S. commodity exports surged. Foreign Agricultural Services Administrator Daniel Whitley says 2024 was no different. “We’ve hit records throughout the last four years in terms of exports. This year won’t be a record, but it’ll be right there number two or number three.” Whitley expects that trend to continue in 2025. “I think that we’ve got some new innovative programs to support American agriculture, promote their products around the world, market their products around the world, come up with new markets. The one big one is the RAPP program, the Regional Ag Promotion Program. It’s really designed to help encourage our producers diversify.”
