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News Brief

April 1, 2025

Local food pantries are feeling effects of USDA cuts

Food banks in the region are beginning to feel the effects of USDA cuts to the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement program for 2025. Second Harvest Community Food Bank in St. Joseph provides food for residents in need in northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas.


Chief Executive Officer with Second Harvest, Chad Higdon, says the USDA program assisted Second Harvest in their work with another group based in St. Joseph.

In Missouri specifically, we work with an organization called Youth Alliance, out of St. Joe, who was the sub contract recipient. They were purchasing the food, we were working with local vendors to help them utilize the funds that they had available. Then all of the food came to Second Harvest and was distributed to our mobile pantry program.", says Higdon. 

 

Higdon says the recently cut USDA program helped purchase approximately 130 thousand dollars of food in the past year.