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FL Ag Commissioner on USDA Support Tuesday Apr 20th, 2021 News Reporter With your Southeast Regional Ag Report, I'm Trevor Williams. Florida's commissioner of agriculture is praising the USDA's Pandemic Assistance for Producers incentive, which was launched in March. The program, which offers $330 million to help agricultural producers and organizations, includes $169.9 million for the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) and $75 million for the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP), which assists low-income consumers to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables. It ...

USDA plans to end the food box program that has routed 157 million pounds of surplus food to needy people over the past year. The Farmers to Families Food Box Program will sunset at the end of May when the funding runs out, a USDA spokesperson said April 15. USDA will continue to make commodity purchases, including through a temporary fresh produce box program and a Dairy Donation Program that is in development. USDA created the food box program with stimulus funding early in the pandemic. Farmers were battered by the loss of food service markets, many people were newly out of work, and Food ...

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2021—The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s announced that it will soon implement the $400 million Dairy Donation Program established by Congress in December 2020. The department provided details on program participation to dairy processors and cooperatives in order to ensure donations of nutritious dairy products continue to make their way to Americans struggling with hunger while USDA finalizes the program. The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) yesterday issued the following statements applauding US...

  The Agriculture Department announced this week that it will soon implement the Dairy Donation Program (DDP) as established in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack noted Wednesday at a House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing that USDA would not continue the Families to Farmers Food Box Program started by the Trump administration but expected to distribute dairy products from the dairy donation program. “The program will facilitate the timely donation of dairy products to nonprofit organizations who distribute food to persons in need ...

USDA Announces How $330M in COVID-19 Pandemic Aid Will be Used for More Producers and Businesses 4 hours ago On Tuesday, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it is allocating $330 million to help agricultural producers and other businesses in the food supply chain bounce back after they were financially impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic. This funding is part of the departments’ USDA Pandemic Assistance for Producers, an initiative announced in March.  Most of the funds will go towards existing programs, including $169.9 million for the Specialty Crop Block ...