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What’s brewing? FAS Recognizes 90 Years of U.S. Hops Industry, Gone Global

September 01, 2023 Zane Evans, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

American breweries and craft beer have grown in popularity in recent years. And that interest in these refreshing, artisan beverages is hopping from continent-to-continent thanks in part to collaboration between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and the U...

Farming Trade

FAS Helps Small Biz Find 'Out of This World' Success

July 12, 2013 Erin Tindell, Foreign Agricultural Service Public Affairs Specialist

When the astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a shipment of food recently, it included jam from a company called Stonewall Kitchen. Jonathan King and Jim Stott started selling their homemade jams from a folding table at a local farmers’ market in Maine in 1991. Today, their...

Trade

Trade Mission Highlights Growing Prospects for Ag Products in Turkey

June 10, 2013 Erin Tindell, Foreign Agricultural Service Public Affairs Specialist

With its rapidly developing economy and expanding middle class, Turkey has become an important market for U.S. food and agricultural products over the past decade. It’s also the destination of the latest USDA agricultural trade mission from June 10-14 as Acting Deputy Secretary of Agriculture...

Trade

U.S. Ag Products Make Their Mark in the Middle East

March 22, 2013 Sue Heinen, Foreign Agricultural Service Administrator

Recently, I traveled to the Middle East to meet with local and U.S. Embassy leaders to discuss agricultural strategy within the region. Towards the end of my two-week journey, I also had the opportunity to meet with U.S. agricultural companies, state regional trade groups and cooperators at the USDA...

Trade

Ambassadors of Cheese

February 14, 2013 Erin Tindell, Foreign Agricultural Service Public Affairs Specialist

For 80 years, Rogue Creamery has been passionate about the art of cheese making. This small company located in Oregon’s scenic Rogue River Valley produces a variety of handcrafted artisan cheeses using milk from its dairies. Its blue cheeses are considered “ambassadors” for the American Artisan and...

Food and Nutrition Trade

U.S. Beef a Hit With Belgian Chefs

October 18, 2012 Erin Tindell, Foreign Agricultural Service Public Affairs Specialist

The European Union (EU) is a relatively new market for U.S. beef exports. It wasn’t until August 2009 when the United States began exporting high-quality beef (marbled with a high fat content) to the EU under a negotiated tariff rate quota for non-hormone treated beef.

USDA Results Trade

Trade Documents at Your Fingertips: Anytime, Anywhere

October 02, 2012 Douglas Bailey, AMS Information Technology Service Deputy Administrator

Over the last three years, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has worked with the peanut and dairy industries to create a government-hosted electronic trade document repository. The eTrade Document Exchange (eTDE) System, funded by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service through the Market...

Trade

U.S. Agribusinesses Encouraged to ‘Explore Exporting’

July 13, 2012 Erin Tindell, Foreign Agricultural Service Public Affairs Specialist

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is funding its partners, the four State Regional Trade Groups (STRGs), to host a series of nationwide seminars that inspire small and medium U.S. food and agricultural companies to become exporters.

Trade

Sweet Success: USDA Support Pushes Nebraska Exporter to Greater Heights

March 12, 2012 Karoline Newell, Foreign Agricultural Service Public Affairs Specialist

After more than two decades of exporting U.S. agricultural products, Good Life Foods is thriving internationally with support from USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).

Trade

USDA-Endorsed Trade Shows Help Seattle Cracker Company Thrive Internationally

November 18, 2011 Karoline Newell, Foreign Agricultural Service Public Affairs Office

What started as a family-owned bread company in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in 1991 is today a thriving, artisan Italian cracker company that sells gourmet products around the world. La Panzanella’s international success is, in part, thanks to their participation in USDA-endorsed...

Trade
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