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WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2012 - Members of the Coalition
to Promote U.S. Agricultural Exports strongly urged U.S. House of
Representatives leadership to take action this year on a new five-year Farm
Bill in a letter dated Nov. 2, 2012. They argued a farm bill would avoid an
unnecessary funding crisis for America’s long-standing and successful public
support for agricultural exports.
“With the expiration of the 2008 Farm Bill on
Sept. 30, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service currently has no authority to run
market promotion and development programs including the Market Access Program
(MAP) and the Foreign Market Development (FMD) for FY 13,” the organizations
said in their letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
The farm families and small to medium size businesses that
foot the bill for 60 percent of export development depend on MAP and FMD to
conduct export activities they cannot do by themselves, the letter said. And
with a forecast value in FY 12 of $136.5 billion, agricultural exports are a
vital part of the U.S. economic engine. However, federal funds for these
programs will end early in 2013 for many organizations that have already
started cancelling or reducing activities.
“Without these programs, our economy will suffer
and America will lose jobs because our competition will know that we are not
willing to compete in rapidly growing international markets,” said Coalition
Chairman Mike Wootton, senior vice president for corporate relations with
Sunkist Growers Inc. “We cannot afford to undermine farm and rural incomes by
suddenly abandoning some of the most successful public/private programs in the
U.S. government.”
#30
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