Formula Grant 12FA00PY95279407PC7846

Federal Grant Award Summary: Export Market Development Payment 2025

The Kansas City Commodity Office, under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, awarded $175,777.65 through the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program (CFDA 10.600) on March 3, 2026. This Formula Grant supports cost-share assistance to nonprofit U.S. agricultural trade organizations for conducting generic overseas marketing and promotional activities. The funding is designated as an Export Market Development Payment and enables recipients to create, expand, and maintain long-term export markets for eligible U.S. agricultural commodities, including cotton, soybeans, wheat, livestock genetics, meat, dairy, and grain products.

Under this program, recipients implement market development initiatives in foreign markets that directly benefit U.S. farmers, processors, and exporters. Award recipients are required to provide a minimum 50% cost share and must maintain active registrations on SAM.gov. The program emphasizes strategic planning, management capability, evaluation methodology, and applicant export performance history. Performance records and financial documentation must be retained for three years from submission of the final expenditure report, with periodic compliance reviews conducted by the Foreign Agricultural Service and potential audits by the Office of Inspector General and Government Accountability Office.