Articles Tagged with ''Market Access Program''

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sends a message about the political significance of ag policy, sitting through the entirety of a House Agriculture Committee farm bill listening session in California and also fielding questions from reporters on a range of issues.

A major farm group is out with its priorities as Congress begins the process to reauthorize the farm bill.

The Agriculture Department's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is awarding over $200 million to over 60 U.S. agricultural organizations to "help expand commercial export markets for U.S. goods," the agency said.

The US Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC) will receive almost $600,000 from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) through its 2022 Market Access Program.

Debra Haaland looks to have the votes to become the first Native American to hold a Cabinet post.

Some 66 commodity groups and trade organizations will be dividing nearly $174 million to promote their products overseas under Market Access Program (MAP) allocations announced by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service for the 2018 fiscal year.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2017 – Organizations representing producers of U.S. corn, soybeans and wheat offered strong support for legislation introduced in the Senate today that would double funding for two federal cost-share programs designed to spur overseas demand for the nation’s three biggest crops and other agricultural products.