USDA cuts $1 billion for schools and food banks

The Agriculture Department has eliminated two major programs that provided schools and food banks with funding to purchase food directly from local farms and ranchers, abruptly halting more than $1 billion in previously announced federal spending. This decision has sent shockwaves through state education departments, school nutrition professionals and local agricultural communities that had incorporated […]

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