USDA halts more than $1B in funding for local food banks, schools
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says it has nixed more than $1 billion in funding for local food banks and schools ...
USDA cuts $1B in local food purchasing funds. How Florida will be affected
Florida school partners were slated to receive an estimated $42,583,882 in 2025 from the LFS program. Meanwhile, the state ...
Education Week5d
Trump Admin. Cuts Program That Brought Local Food to School Cafeterias
The $660 million Local Food For Schools program, which was started under President Joe Biden, was canceled for 2025.
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USDA cancels local food purchasing plan that helps Mississippi food banks, local farmers
USDA cuts more than $1B to programs that help food banks and schools buy fresh foods from local farmers and ranchers across ...
USDA cuts $1 billion in funding for schools, food banks to buy food from local farmers
Feeding America West Michigan will lose about 500,000 pounds of food, close to 400,000 meals, due to the stoppage of the ...
Local schools to lose federal funding used to bring local food to cafeterias
Upward of $660 million could be lost from school districts nationwide as proposed cuts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture threaten to slash a program used to purchase food from local farmers. The ...
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Local farmers disappointed, frustrated as USDA stops funding for produce in schools
The USDA made an agreement with the state in January 2023 to begin a program called Local Foods for Schools (LFS) that would ...