Proposed MAP changes shot down

Thursday, June 21, 2012

A group of agriculture industry associations are credited with persuading a majority of senators from including in the pending Farm Bill a 20 percent cut in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Market Access Program (MAP). The amendment was defeated by a vote of 69 to 30. The amendment would have meant a reduction of $40 million a year for export promotion programs supported by MAP. “U.S. agriculture trade is one of the few U.S. trade areas that maintains ...

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