Food for Peace
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Sep 14, 2026
Steven BellHOST
In fact, the U.S., even to this day, ranks fourth in wheat production, only behind China, India, and Russia, and is a huge exporter of it.
Steven BellHOST
Either way, after the occupation ended in 1952, the flow would continue under the 1954 Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act, something known as Public Law 480, or Food for Peace, which is something that allowed Japan to buy American surplus grain in yen on...
Steven BellHOST
Rather generous terms, American agricultural interests saw Japan as a brand new market to be able to cultivate, and the Japanese government, worried about rice shortages, would cooperate with a rather aggressive campaign to try and shift the national diet more towards wheat.
Steven BellHOST
School lunches began to be built around bread and milk.
Tania KarasPANELIST
So many countries having lost for both like food aid and also investment in agricultural research and development.
Tania KarasPANELIST
For example, USAID was funding these innovation labs and, you know, that was under the Food for Peace program.
Tania KarasPANELIST
Those are no longer in existence.
Tania KarasPANELIST
Right.
Tania KarasGUEST
So many countries having lost for both like food aid and also investment in agricultural research and development.
Tania KarasGUEST
For example, USAID was funding these innovation labs and, you know, that was under the Food for Peace program.
Tania KarasGUEST
Those are no longer in existence.
Tania KarasGUEST
Right.
Jeff AllenHOST
FAS also is considering adding Venezuela to an upcoming regional agribusiness trade mission to connect U.S. exporters with regional buyers.
Jeff AllenHOST
In addition, the agency is evaluating if programs like McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition, Food for Progress, and Food for Peace can support Venezuela communities experiencing food insecurity.
Jeff AllenHOST
Mexico will take 250,000 acre feet of Colorado River water cuts in 27 and 28 as a part of a new agreement with the United States.
Jeff AllenHOST
According to a press release from the International Boundary and Water Commission, both countries will continue discussing future reductions if water forecasts continue to worsen.
Kenneth HiteHOST
His previous outfit is called Adolph Goebel, named for the Sausage King of Brooklyn, but the Goebel family was well out of it by the time he bought it.
Kenneth HiteHOST
And once the National School Lunch Program came about, he began selling meat from Adolph Goebel to schools, and he shipped what turned out to be substandard lard and shortening to Europe as part of the Food for Peace program.
Kenneth HiteHOST
So I would like you to cast your mind back to the 1940s and '50s when a government program would be routinely built and defrauded, and just be glad that never happens now.
Robin D. LawsHOST
Right.
Kenneth HiteHOST
That was the end of that.
Kenneth HiteHOST
So he, uh, takes a couple of years, I assume b- bike cycles around New Jersey, and then opens up the Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corporation.
Kenneth HiteHOST
And guess what? Food for Peace is still going on, so he gets Allied onto that same gravy train.
Kenneth HiteHOST
There's no sort of, "Didn't you commit fraud two years ago?" form you have to fill out.
Amy FranceGUEST
We need that passed in the Senate version.
Amy FranceGUEST
And a wind, too, is the food for peace.
Amy FranceGUEST
So we need that codified and moved permanently over to USDA.
Amy FranceGUEST
But we did have, and I believe we talked about it, too, but 400,000 bushels of Milo moved just south of my farm um to go to africa in that food for peace effort using u.s grown commodities to feed those in need around the world so a win that we got those bushels moving but we're still focused on trying to get that um solidified and put over to usda permanently and that's also in the farm bill um so they've got a lot riding on when they think get back in september
Tony St. JamesHOST
Farm Bill offers tools for farmers, but when it comes to sorghum, one tool that has not been there in the past has been a futures market.
Tony St. JamesHOST
CME Group now has a Milo contract.