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Will Local Food Survive Trump’s USDA? The USDA is bulldozing efforts that help small farmers and food producers sell food directly to schools, food banks, and local communities.

More than a dozen programs supporting small farms and regional food infrastructure that have been impacted by the USDA funding cuts.

“What this means from a bigger picture is that people are not going to have access to as much local food, and our farmers are already going into debt.”

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

This cuts healthy food for kids, shrinks business for local farmers, and stunts food availability for whole regions, leaving people more reliant on aid and big (processed) food brands and corporations. It literally makes America sick and more vulnerable in disasters. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Trump’s Funding Freeze Creates Chaos and Financial Distress for Farmers Regenerative farming programs supported by the USDA are thrown into chaos as federal funding is put on pause.

Trump’s Funding Freeze Creates Chaos and Financial Distress for Farmers

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Trump’s spending halts raise concerns for Kansas farmers, global stability A federal food aid program started under the Eisenhower Administration has temporarily lost funding under President Donald Trump’s order to dismantle government spending.

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