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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.

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.

For almost 50 years, Bangladesh required U.S. cotton be fumigated because of concerns about the boll weevil. Collaboration between USDA agencies and the Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture resulted in amended import requirements, exempting the United States from the list of countries required to fumigate cotton upon arrival.

USDA Deputy Secretary Torres Small visited a USDA-supported school feeding program and garden at the Mungazine Primary School in Mozambique.

USDA, through its administration of the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition (McGovern-Dole) Program, is the largest global donor to school feeding efforts, providing U.S. agricultural commodities, funding, and technical assistance to reduce hunger, support nutrition, and improve literacy and primary education, especially for girls, around the world.

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.

May is World Trade Month, and USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service is marking the occasion by sharing some of the most recent facts and figures about U.S. agricultural trade.

For FY 2023, USDA anticipates awarding up to $224 million in new McGovern-Dole cooperative agreements. USDA has identified the following as priority countries for FY 2023: Cameroon, Haiti, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, and Togo.