North Carolina has participated in the program since 2022. Cuts are expected to be finalized in early May. What to know.
Cuts to USDA funding will end programs that put fresh produce in school lunchrooms and in food banks, forcing farmers to change plans abruptly.
Bangladesh’s potato shipments nearly doubled in just the first eight months of this fiscal year as locally grown tubers ...
The Trump administration said it won't fund the two programs that allowed schools and food banks to supply healthier food to ...
Calls on the Trump administration to reverse its decision to cancel $1 billion in programs to buy locally produced food for schools and food banks abounded around the country on Monday. Rep. Jim Costa ...
SPRINGFIELD U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA), members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, along with ...
The executive director of Northern New Mexico’s food bank, The Food Depot, says the recent U.S. Department of Agriculture’s elimination of a program that connected food banks to local food producers ...
WASHINGTON — Democratic members of the Senate and the House of Representatives continue to ask for answers on the US Department of Agriculture’s decision to cancel $1 billion in food purchase programs ...
The other side of the ‘buying Canadian’ trend is boycotting American as much as possible. Geoff Ramsay of Summerside, PEI, ...
The program provided fresh produce and locally produced meat to about 150,000 people in Arkansas. Food bank aren't sure how they'll make up the shortfall.
The independent butcher shop closed due to rising costs, economic strain and shifting consumer habits. The closure also impacted local farmers that relied on the shop's business, and worried the ...