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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, November 02, 2024
Rural schools and county governments are struggling to parse out their budgets next year amid the looming expiration of federal funding meant to help offset the loss of their tax revenue from public lands.
USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) will extend several school lunch and nutrition program waivers already in effect into the new school year, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Purdue announced Thursday in a release.
Uncertainty about how schools will open this fall has elevated concerns that the food items and supplies the country’s 13,698 public school districts need could be difficult to come by.
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2017 - School food service directors, who say they’ve been struggling to meet increased nutrition standards that have boosted food costs, are looking for some help in the next farm bill.
