Coronavirus
USDA continues to fund companies with no food service experience to help feed needy families
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The program recently entered its third round of funding.
coronavirus
USDA adds, extends contracts for program that funded banking and wellness companies to feed needy families
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The USDA created the Food Box program to help feed families struggling during the pandemic. A review by the Midwest Center shows that some program contractors were expected to work in a new field or with new products they weren’t used to handling.
#agalerts
#AgAlerts: Relief plans; small town groceries, grain bin accidents; farmer suicides
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Wet and cold weather in 2019 have created a dangerous situation this year for South Dakota farmers who store grain in bins, heightening a risk of entrapment or death that has existed on farms for generations.
The number of reported grain entrapments across the country rose by 27% from 2018 to 2019, and deaths rose by 53% that year.