Ready for Another Successful Year of Partnership with USDA/FAS

USDBC has received its Market Access Program (MAP) and Foreign Market Development (FMD) program allocations for the 2018 year. After a tough budget fight to ensure these programs stay funded, this was very welcome and encouraging news. Our allocation, not including the GBI Program and Emerging Markets program is about $1.1 million, more or less the same as 2017. We anticipate an additional $400,000 or so in funding from other funds, not yet allocated.

We are grateful to the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) for their continued support of our global export programs and look forward to another year of successful partnership in promoting agricultural exports and moving our beans around the world. We will remain vocal and assertive about ensuring continued funding of the both the MAP and FMD programs in the next Farm Bill and standing with our colleagues in the agricultural trade community to ask for a doubling of both budgets.