Formula Grant 12FA00PY95784237PC7846

Export Market Development Payment 2025 - Formula Grant Award Summary

The Kansas City Commodity Office, under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, awarded $780,921.23 on April 7, 2026, through the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program (CFDA 10.600). This formula grant funds cost-share assistance to nonprofit U.S. agricultural trade organizations for conducting generic overseas marketing and promotional activities. The funded activities are designed to create, expand, and maintain long-term export markets for eligible U.S. agricultural commodities and products, including cotton, soybeans, wheat, livestock genetics, meat, dairy, and grain products.

Recipients utilize the grant funding to implement market development initiatives in foreign markets that directly benefit U.S. farmers, processors, and exporters. These organizations are required to provide a minimum 50% cost share to supplement federal funding and must maintain compliance with program requirements, including active SAM.gov registrations and periodic audits by FAS representatives and oversight agencies. The program emphasizes strategic planning, management capability, and demonstrated export performance history in evaluating and supporting viable market development activities.