Members of the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) will gather in Tucson, Ariz., this week for the federation’s annual Strategic Planning Conference. USMEF Chair Randy Spronk, a pork and grain producer from Minnesota, will mark the end of his term of leadership of the organization. He notes that over the past year USMEF has diversified its marketing footprint through additional funding from USDA’s new Regional Agricultural Promotion Program (RAPP), which has allowed expansion of resources in developing markets like Indonesia.