U.S. Wheat Associates Receives Funding for Export Development

US wheat associates recently received their annual allocation for the market access program and the foreign market development program. Steve Mercer, Vice President of Communications for US Wheat Associates.

“And for US Wheat, we received $4.8 million for map and $3.4 million for FMD, foreign market development. We use those funds for our activities and to fund the work of our offices around the world. FMD allows us to have foreign service folks working with us. Those are our base programs, and very important you've done on overall, no small part, because they haven't had a raise in 2006 there's a long time ago, and so that's a factor to consider us.”

In addition, Mercer says that USDA has pulled through with other funding for US wheat market development.

“USDA has agreed to the request for additional funding for market development out of the commodity credit Corporation fund. And so the RAPP program, Regional Ag Promotion Program was created, and USDA Foreign Ag Service announced allocation for those funds.”

Of those funds, US Wheat Associates was awarded $13 million according to Mercer.