Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Last year, the Department of Agriculture canceled the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program that allowed state, tribal and territorial governments purchase healthy, nutritious food produced by local and regional farmers. This food served feeding programs and food banks, with the goal of increasing local food consumption and building economic opportunity for local producers.
This program not only put healthy, nutrient-rich food on the tables of families across the nation, but it also created steady income for neighborhood farms.
To learn more about the harms happening in your community due to the Trump administration’s often haphazard funding and personnel cuts, visit The Cost to Your Community at ourpublicservice.org/cost-to-your-community.
Last year, the Department of Agriculture canceled the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program that allowed state, tribal and territorial governments purchase healthy, nutritious food produced by local and regional farmers. This food served feeding programs and food banks, with the goal of increasing local food consumption and building economic opportunity for local producers.
This program not only put healthy, nutrient-rich food on the tables of families across the nation, but it also created steady income for neighborhood farms.
To learn more about the harms happening in your community due to the Trump administration’s often haphazard funding and personnel cuts, visit The Cost to Your Community at ourpublicservice.org/cost-to-your-community.
