Tag: farmers to families food box

Costa Fruit & Produce Company Boston, MA, was among the produce companies who got shut out of round 4 of USDA’s Farmers to Families food box program.

Pamela breaks vacation to join Greg to talk about the latest USDA food box news.

USDA made significant changes to the companies supplying Farmers to Families Food Boxes for round 4, which runs in November and December, and box cost may have been a factor.

It may seem like a huge step up to go from packing 12,000 food boxes to 1.7 million from round 3 to 4, but Steve Veneziano, vice president at Oakes Farms, Inc. in Immokalee, FL, said the company could have done more than twice that much.

The USDA today announced it has approved contracts for up to the authorized amount to support American producers and communities in need through the USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program.

Proffer Wholesale Produce, Inc., Park Hills, MO, moved from packing about 30,000 boxes of fresh produce a week in the Farmers to Families Food Box Program to more than 100,000 30-pound combo food boxes in September.

USDA is issuing solicitations for the fourth round to existing Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) holders and expects to award contracts by Oct. 30 for deliveries of food boxes from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that more than 100 million food boxes have been distributed in support of American farmers and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box Program.

With USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box program set to end October 31, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the Trump Administration would prefer to end the program and let the market do its job.

Following President Donald Trump’s approval to include up to an additional $1 billion in the Farmers to Families Food Box Program, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the USDA has approved up to $1 billion in contracts to support American producers and communities in need through the USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program.