date:Dec 23, 2013
e helped achieve record agricultural trade over the past five years.
Under Secretary Scuse emphasized the importance of agricultural exports to job creation, as well as the critical need for a dependable safety net that will allow America's producers to continue providing a reliable food supply at home and abroad.
U.S. agricultural exports reached a record $140.9 billion in fiscal year 2013 and supported about a million U.S. jobs. In fact, compared to the previous five-year period from FY 2004