USDA kills millions in contracts that help buy local food for Iowa kids and food banks
The Iowa Food System Coalition says the USDA has cancelled contracts worth more than $11-million. The money was to help the state’s food banks, schools and child care centers purchase local food from more than 300 Iowa farmers over three years.
The Food Bank of Iowa and farmers in the Hawkeye state are about to feel the effects of a program being cut to help food ...
Like many other smaller farms, the Rosmann Family Farm in Harlan was able to use the programs to sell bulk amounts of pork ...
Iowa farmers and schools are looking at losing millions of dollars in funding for fresh, local food.The Iowa Food System ...
Iowa House and Senate lawmakers are considering appropriating money to a program that matches dollars provided by the ...
Phil Jeneary with the Iowa Food Bank Association said pantries and food banks across the state are setting record attendance numbers. Rep. Shannon Lundgren, a Republican from Peosta, said ...
The programs provided locally grown food to dozens of schools, day care centers and food banks in Iowa. “For Iowa farmers, the impact is immediate and potentially devastating,” the Iowa ...
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