Government Programs
Food Aid: Ad Hoc Coalition Letterpublished 04/03/2012
USW and other organizations submitted a letter to Congress recommending that U.S. food aid programs continue to be funded at responsible, sustainable...
Food Aid: U.S. Wheat Industry's Food Aid Principlespublished 08/31/2011
The U.S. Wheat Associates' Food Aid Working Group Principles.
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FMD-MAP: What Wheat Producers Should Know About Export Market Development Fundingpublished 05/16/2011
The Market Access Program (MAP) and Foreign Market Development (FMD) program administered by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) form the core...
Sanctions: Wheat Farmers Want Cuba and the United States to Get Down to Business published 03/22/2011
By Rebecca Bratter, Director of Policy, U.S. Wheat Associates
Wheat farmers have a big crop to sell this year and U.S. Wheat Associates works hard t...
Sanctions: Treasury's Cuba Rule Change Might Force Contract Changespublished 03/22/2011
The following is reprinted, with permission, from the National Journal's Congress Daily, March 8, 2005:
The Bush administration's decision to tighte...
Sanctions: USW renews commitment to working for "free and open trade" with Cubapublished 03/22/2011
On March 17, 2003, the U.S. Wheat Associates Board of Directors approved the following resolution:
WHEREAS U.S. Wheat Associates has played a major...
Sanctions: USW struggles with U.S. rules to develop wheat market in Cubapublished 03/22/2011
Testimony offered by
Nelson Denlinger, Vice President, U.S. Wheat Associates
on behalf of
U.S. Wheat Associates
Wheat Export Trade Education Commi...
Sanctions: Remove Agriculture from Unilateral Sanctionspublished 03/22/2011
Half of the wheat grown in the U.S. is destined for export markets. Producers want to be reliable exporters. We therefore urge the World Trade Organi...
Food Aid: Wheat and wishes for the Iraqi people published 03/22/2011
Last week, the United States government shipped 56,500 metric tons of wheat to the Iraqi people, with perhaps 150,000 tons more to be shipped as need...
Food Aid: U.S. Wheat industry supports immediate assistance to starving Afghanspublished 03/22/2011
As relief agencies rush to get food supplies in place before the snows essentially block mountain passes in Afghanistan, the U.S. Agency for Internat...
Food Aid: Food Aid Should be Continuedpublished 03/22/2011
Food aid, under the guidance of WTO rules, is urgently needed. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 35 countries...
Food Aid: Food Aid Principles, adopted by USW Board of Directors, March 2002published 03/22/2011
Today there are about 800 million malnourished and hungry people in the world. In order to meet the goal of halving world hunger by 2015, a goal agre...
Food Aid: Food Aid Dockage Levels: Comments offered to FASpublished 03/22/2011
April 5, 2002
Ms. Ellen Terpstra, Administrator
US Department of Agriculture
Foreign Agricultural Service - Stop 1001
1400 Independence Ave., SW
Was...
Food Aid: Agricultural Aid and Development: Alan Tracy's presentation at the South Asian Wheat Buyer's Conferencepublished 03/22/2011
Alan Tracy, President
2001 South Asian Wheat Buyer's Conference
June 25-27
Phuket, Thailand
It is an honor and a privilege to be here with you today...
Food Aid: USW supports the use of the Bill Emerson Trust, with conditions, for emergency food aidpublished 03/22/2011
In February 2004, the Administration asked Congress to provide $1.185 billion for FY 2005 P.L. 480 Title II food aid programs. Pending congressional...
Food Aid: Wheat groups ask USDA to reconsider wheat "release" to domestic marketpublished 03/22/2011
(The following is the text of a letter sent to USDA Secretary Ann Veneman)
Dear Madam Secretary:
We note the recent announcement by USDA that 275,0...
FMD-MAP: Fact Sheet: FMD-MAP Programspublished 03/22/2011
U.S. Wheat Associates' and National Association of Wheat Growers' fact sheet on the FMD-MAP Programs.
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FMD-MAP: Coalition for Ag Exports Letter to Congress Supporting Market Development Fundingpublished 03/22/2011
February 13, 2008
Honorable Tom Harkin Honorable Collin Peterson
Chairman Chairman
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Com...
FMD-MAP: Facts About the Market Access Program (MAP)published 03/22/2011
The Market Access Program (MAP), originally known as the Targeted Export Assistance (TEA) Program when it was created in the 1985 Farm Bill, uses fun...
FMD-MAP: On-Going Analysis Confirms Value in Public-Private Export Market Developmentpublished 03/22/2011
Impact of USDA’s Market Development Programs
Following are updated results of a previous cost-benefit analysis evaluating the impacts of the Market A...
FMD-MAP: FMD program essential for U.S. wheat export effort: A briefing by James Frahmpublished 03/22/2011
A briefing for the
U.S. House of Representatives
April 17, 2001
and the
U.S. Senate
April 18, 2001
by
James Frahm
Vice President of Planning
U.S. Wh...
FMD-MAP: The Future of U.S. Agricultural Export Programspublished 03/22/2011
Statement of the
Wheat Export Trade Education Committee
U.S. Wheat Associates
and
National Association of Wheat Growers
TO THE
SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE...