Pierre, SD, USA / DRGNews
Feb 15, 2021 8:39 AM
Farmers Union Enterprises teamed up with South Dakota Farmers Union to donate 35,000 pounds of pork ribs to Feeding South Dakota.
“COVID-19 continues to impact jobs and many South Dakota families continue to see their grocery budget shrink. We see this as a way to help,” explains Doug Sombke, President of Farmers Union Enterprises.
Sombke is also President of one of the state’s largest farm and ranch organizations, South Dakota Farmers Union.
The donation comes at a time when demand for food has doubled, due to job losses during the COVID-19 pandemic, explains Jennifer Stensaas, Communications Coordinator for Feeding South Dakota. “As we approach nearly a year of service since the pandemic began, we continue to feed many individuals and families who have never needed food assistance before,” she says. “We are grateful to organizations like South Dakota Farmers Union for joining forces with us to help meet this increase
Farmers Union donates pork to Hunger Task Force
Wisconsin State Farmer
Family farm groups plan to donate 180,000 of pork to needy families living in a five-state region.
Recently, a large donation of protein found its way from family farmers to inner-city Milwaukee, when a Farmers Union Enterprises truck unloaded 35,000 pounds of pork ribs at Hunger Task Force, Milwaukee’s primary community food bank.
Farmers Union Enterprises (FUE) teamed up with Wisconsin Farmers Union (WFU) to donate the pork ribs.
Farmers Union says the donation is part of a giving spree that will deliver a total of 180,000 pounds of ribs to food banks in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin over the next several weeks. Last year the group distributed 150,000 pounds of pork ribs to food banks in the five-state area.
Montana Farmers Union makes second donation of pork ribs to the food bank network
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Montana Food Bank Network board member Jan Tusick and network CEO Gayle Carlson stand next to boxes of pork donated to the network by Montana Farmers Union and Farmers Union Enterprises.
From Montana Farmers Union GREAT FALLS - Montana Farmers Union and Farmers Union Enterprises made another sizeable in-kind donation of 38,000 pounds of pork ribs to the Montana Food Bank Network. The ribs are from Redwood Farms and will be distributed by the Montana Food Bank Network. Redwood Farms is one of the entities in the Farmers Union family of businesses owned by Farmers Union Enterprises.
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