The loss of $21 million in USDA funding will force schools and food banks to shift back to produce grown out of state, instead of buying it from local farmers. Federal officials have failed to ...

The procurement platform, fresh off a seed funding round, will work with two other organizations to expand local government ...

Liz Graznak, owner of Happy Hollow Farm in Missouri, holds bundles of celery. Graznak said demand from the USDA’s local food purchasing programs helped her ramp up production over the last three years ...

Local food banks are feeling the pinch — and may offer less local produce — amid federal funding cuts to a program connecting them to farms.

FILE: Volunteers load the cars and push the drivers through the line at Foodshare that has been distributing food at Rentschler Field in East Hartford since the start of the pandemic. This site ...