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Sources: USDA pumping $2.5B in CCC funding into foreign market promotion, food aid

09/15/23 3:45 PM By Bill Tomson and Philip Brasher
KEYWORDS CCC Debbie Stabenow farm bill FMD Jimmy Panetta John Boozman MAP USAEDC USDA

The Department of Agriculture has agreed to use Commodity Credit Corporation funds to spend about $1.4 billion on a program to help farm groups market their commodities overseas and about $1.1 billion to pay for commodity-based international food aid, according to sources.


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