Export Market Development Payment 2025 - Formula Grant Summary

On March 27, 2026, the Kansas City Commodity Office, operating under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, awarded $111,950.38 through the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program (CFDA 10.600) to support generic overseas marketing and promotional activities. This formula grant funds cost-share assistance to nonprofit U.S. agricultural trade organizations conducting market development initiatives in foreign markets to create, expand, and maintain long-term export markets for U.S. agricultural commodities and products, including cotton, soybeans, wheat, livestock genetics, meat, dairy, and grain products.

The award supports the recipient's implementation of various market development activities designed to benefit U.S. farmers, processors, and exporters. As a formula grant distributed by the Farm Service Agency's Kansas City Commodity Office, this award represents part of the program's substantial ongoing funding allocations to eligible organizations. Recipients are required to maintain a minimum 50% cost share, undergo periodic compliance reviews by FAS representatives, and retain detailed grant records for three years following submission of final expenditure reports, with extended retention requirements if any audits or claims remain pending.