Export Market Development Payment 2026 – Summary

The Kansas City Commodity Office, under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, awarded $141,409.02 on May 19, 2026, through the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program (CFDA 10.600). This formula grant provides cost-share assistance to nonprofit U.S. agricultural trade organizations to conduct 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 supports market development initiatives that benefit U.S. farmers, processors, and exporters by enabling eligible organizations to implement promotional activities in foreign markets. Eligible commodities include cotton, soybeans, wheat, livestock genetics, meat, dairy, and grain products. Recipients must provide a minimum 50% cost share and maintain active registrations on SAM.gov. The program emphasizes strategic planning, management capability, evaluation methodology, and demonstrated export performance history as key evaluation criteria. Grant records must be retained for three years from the date of final expenditure report submission, with performance and financial documentation available for periodic review and audit by the Foreign Agricultural Service Compliance Review Staff and other government oversight entities.