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Corn, Wheat, Soybeans seek more $$ for market programs
Commodity groups want funding increased in the next Farm Bill for USDA’s export market programs.
Washington state grower Brett Blankenship, past president of the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG), says both the Foreign Market Development and Market Access Programs have been a target for savings to offset other cuts through the years. He told reporters at Commodity Classic those ‘MAP’ and F-M-D programs are the best trade protection growers have now, “We’ve been lucky to hold the spending where it has been but we think in lieu of not having trade deals then we need to supplement in another way to enhance those export efforts.”
Illinois grower Ron Moore, president of the American Soybean Association (ASA), told delegates at the ASA annual meeting at Commodity Classic that double the funding is not asking too much, “The European Union spends a BILLION dollars promoting their products into the export market.
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