Cuts in federal funding will hurt both food pantries and producers

CRST Food Distribution Program funding agreement will be honored
  • A Feeding South Dakota volunteer interacts with a food recipient at the organization’s March food distribution on Main Street of Isabel. Photo by Jon Flatland
    A Feeding South Dakota volunteer interacts with a food recipient at the organization’s March food distribution on Main Street of Isabel. Photo by Jon Flatland
    Montana Roem is worried that a proposed $1 billion cut to federal food programs that aid schools and charities will hurt her family on two fronts.As she waited in a line of cars at a Feeding South Dakota mobile food bank in Box Elder on March 27, Roem said she was well aware of the U.S. Department of Agriculture move to eliminate two programs that paid for locally grown foods to be provi...

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