Export Market Development Payment 2025 – Formula Grant Summary

The Kansas City Commodity Office, under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, awarded $209,765.51 on March 18, 2026, through the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program (CFDA 10.600). This formula grant supports cost-share assistance to eligible nonprofit U.S. agricultural trade organizations conducting generic overseas marketing and promotional activities designed to create, expand, and maintain long-term export markets for U.S. agricultural commodities and products. The award, designated as an "Export Market Development Payment 2025," funds market development initiatives that benefit U.S. farmers, processors, and exporters across a range of commodities including cotton, soybeans, wheat, livestock genetics, meat, dairy, and grain products.

Recipients utilize these funds to implement various market development activities in foreign markets through overseas marketing and promotional efforts that are supported on a cost-share basis, with recipients required to provide a minimum 50% cost match. The program emphasizes strategic planning, management capability, and evaluation methodology, with awards typically ranging from $50,000 to $250,000. All grant records and supporting documentation must be retained for three years from submission of final expenditure reports, and accounts are subject to periodic compliance reviews by the Foreign Agricultural Service, as well as potential audits by the Office of Inspector General and Government Accounting Office.