Many states have been notified that funding for the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program has been cut, which ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has cut more than $1 billion in federal programs that gave schools and food banks funding ...

Florida school partners were slated to receive an estimated $42,583,882 in 2025 from the LFS program. Meanwhile, the state ...

The USDA said it is promoting wiser government spending, but schools say it will make it tougher to serve healthy meals.

Two USDA programs provided $1.1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farms and suppliers ...

The USDA said in an email that it had notified states, territories and tribes that the money for fiscal year 2025, “is no ...

Iowa farmers and institutions lost an estimated $11.3 million in federal funding to support the purchase of locally raised ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says it has nixed more than $1 billion in funding for local food banks and schools ...

We continue to advocate and ask that food insecurity not be part of those budget cost-saving measures because it is such an important lifeline for so many people in our communities.” ...

States were notified that the USDA had cut funding to the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program, the School Nutrition Association says.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has slashed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to purchase food from ...

USDA eliminates two vital food programs worth $1 billion that connected local farms with schools and food banks, forcing ...