The Council submitted the organization’s operational blueprint, known as the Unified Export Strategy (UES), this week to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA’s FAS). Through the UES, the Council applies for matching funding from USDA’s market development and export promotion programs, including the Market Access Program (MAP) and the Foreign Market Development (FMD) program. Hundreds of pages long, the UES contains background on markets, evaluation of activities and long-term strategies for promoting coarse grains and related products.
About The U.S. Grains Council
The U.S. Grains Council develops export markets for U.S. barley, corn, sorghum and related products including distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and ethanol. With full-time presence in 28 locations, the Council operates programs in more than 50 countries and the European Union. The Council believes exports are vital to global economic development and to U.S. agriculture’s profitability. Detailed information about the Council and its programs is online at www.grains.org.
