WASHINGTON — USDA) has announced that Undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Michael Scuse is leading a mission to promote U.S. agricultural exports to Russia, Dec. 3-7.
Representatives from the states of Idaho, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Kansas, as well as 23 American companies will attend.
Two-way agricultural trade between the U.S. and Russia was valued at roughly $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2012, with American farm exports accounting for 97 percent of the total — a significant contribution to the U.S. agricultural trade surplus.
USDA pointed out that today, only 1 percent of. . .

