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Menards serving as drop site for food donations.

The Clear Lake Farmers Market is participating in a unique program that helps combat local food insecurity. It's called The Double Up Food Bucks progr

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  Feeding Iowans Task Force to scale back its work as report details efforts to combat food insecurity in Iowa BY MICHAEL CRUMB, Senior Staff Writer Thursday, May 13, 2021 10:16 AM Northeast Iowa Food Bank volunteers Eileen Gunderson, left, and Grace Coates check dates on perishable items in the food bank’s sorting room in Waterloo. File photo by Duane Tinkey A year after it was created to help fight soaring levels of food insecurity brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, the Feeding Iowans Task Force will be scaled back, Gov. Kim Reynolds and Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg announced ...

Dec 15, 2020 A program established in late April to generate pork donations to hungry Iowans is receiving a generous boost to keep meat on their plates. Zoetis, a leading animal health company, is donating $25,000 to Pass the Pork for processing and storage of ground pork that will provide 40,000 servings of pork to Iowans in need. Pass the Pork is a coordinated program that has support from the Iowa governor’s Feeding Iowans Task Force, the Iowa Food Bank Association, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, the Iowa State University Meats Laboratory and the Iowa Pork Produ...