By promoting sound trade policies, building relationships between trading partners and being a reliable third-party resource, the U.S. Grains Council and its members have enhanced food security and food choice for countless people around the world. This work is at the heart of our mission of Developing Markets, Enabling Trade and Improving Lives.

Throughout 2012, Council staff and members could be found getting a firsthand look at the Panama Canal expansion project...putting a face on U.S. agriculture through trade missions and by hosting trade teams...and reassuring global buyers that the United States would remain the world’s most reliable grain supplier even in the face of the worst drought in five decades.

Explore this Annual Report website and discover how the Council actively promotes the value of trade, how we help build relationships that open and maintain markets, enhance food security, promote sound trade policies and provide customers with reliable, accurate information.