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For Fiscal Year 2025, Food for Progress anticipates awarding five to seven new cooperative agreements, for projects of three- to five-years in duration. Priority countries include Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, and Vietnam.

Private exporters reported the following sales activity for MY 2024/2025: 130,000 MT of white wheat for delivery to South Korea and 20,000 MT of soybean oil for delivery to unknown destinations.

Private exporters reported sales of 132,000 MT of corn for delivery to South Korea during MY 2024/2025.

Private exporters reported sales of 132,000 MT of corn for delivery to South Korea during MY 2024/2025.

As with many farmers, JM Grain started out as a small farming business. The family started growing peas, lentils, and chickpeas for sustainability purposes because pulses put nitrogen in the soil and help to keep wheat or other crops free of disease.

Private exporters reported sales of 30,000 MT of soybean oil for delivery to South Korea during MY 2024/2025.

Private exporters reported sales to Mexico, South Korea, and unknown destinations for MY 2024/2025.

Private exporters reported sales of 20,000 MT of soybean oil for delivery to South Korea during MY 2024/2025.

Sometimes, even the most successful and experienced entrepreneurs need a little extra help navigating ways to diversify and expand their business model. For dairy products and ingredients company, Tedford/Tellico, Inc. in Knoxville, Tennessee, that was the case in 2022, when its Global Sales Director Matthew Tedford attended his first-ever USDA-sponsored agribusiness trade mission more than 8,500 miles away in the Philippines.

FAS helps minority farmers gain traction in international trade as well as growing and promoting their businesses.