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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s America First Trade Promotion Program grant recipients were announced earlier today, and the U.S. Grains & BioProducts Council was among those agricultural organizations to receive an allocation.
The U.S. Grains & BioProducts Council offered the following response to the announcement:
“The U.S. Grains & BioProducts Council thanks USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins and Undersecretary Luke Lindberg and their team at FAS for the generous allocation. We will use it to grow and defend market share in established and emerging markets around the world for U.S. corn, sorghum, barley and their co-products, including our market development expansion of grain exports in the form of renewable bioethanol. AFTPP will help us drive global exports of our products and expand our reach to overseas destinations that were previously restricted under other market development grants. This will allow the highest amount of flexibility in finding homes for the products our U.S. farmers and producers offer, ultimately contributing to national prosperity that leads to a safer, stronger and more prosperous future for American agriculture.”
The initiative, funded under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and administered through the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, is a $285 million program launched for fiscal year 2026, aimed at expanding global markets for U.S. agricultural products.
It provides cost-share grants to non-profit organizations, cooperatives, and state agencies to boost exports and support producers.
Sources: USGBC news release, USDA
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