Food is prepared for distribution at FeedMore, a USDA partner agency in Richmond, Va., that provides food assistance as part of the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) and The Emergency ...

The food is worth about $1.1 million and was to be provided through the USDA’s Emergency Food Assistance Program, he said.

USDA had previously allocated $500 million in deliveries to food banks for fiscal year 2025 through The Emergency Food Assistance Program. Now, the food bank leaders say many of those orders have ...

The Mid-Ohio Food Collective (MOFC) told The Dispatch the USDA has canceled deliveries of $1.4 million worth of mostly meat, dairy and eggs, amounting to a loss of 697,000 pounds of food.

Funding for the program comes from the Commodity Credit Corporation, which the USDA has used in various ways over the past decade to support farmers by purchasing additional food that is ...

Keep reading to learn more about how recent budget cuts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has farmers concerned for their livelihood. On Monday, March 17, the Iowa Department of ...

State officials were notified earlier this month of the USDA’s decision to cancel state agreements for the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program and the Local Food Purchase ...

One reason is fewer expected shipments from USDA's The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), one of the agency's core nutrition programs that buys food from farmers and sends it to food ...

He also covers agricultural topics. Share your story idea with Ryan. In early March, the USDA announced it would cut $1 billion in COVID-era funding. "There is over 300 pounds in here that was ...

This month, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it is terminating 2025 funding for two pandemic-era initiatives: the Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) and Local Food for Schools ...

Some 27 trucks containing the equivalent of 670,000 meals, including chicken, eggs, blueberries and other highly nutritious items, are now listed as “returned” in the USDA portal, she said.

But U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins assured growers late last month that USDA would disburse the assistance, even as the agency paused other payments. Midwest economists say the assistan ...