Wheat Growers Applaud Efforts to Increase Export Promotion Funding

America’s wheat growers have a long history of valuing export market development by supporting the successful public-private partnership with USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.  That’s why U.S. Wheat Associates and the National Association of Wheat Growers applaud the introduction of the Cultivating Revitalization by Expanding American Agricultural Trade and Exports [CREAATE] Act of 2022 in the Senate.  The legislation would double the funding for the Market Access Program and Foreign Market Development Program, both of which are administered by the FAS.

“MAP funding hasn’t increased from $200 million since 2006, and FMD funding hasn’t changed from $34.5 million since 2002,” said USW Chair Rhonda Larson. “However, our foreign competition in most global markets, including wheat, has grown.”

USW also uses MAP and FMD funding to enable greater use of U.S. wheat in food aid programs which have taken on more significance due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that disrupted the global wheat trade.

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