$1-billion for Emergency Food Assistance and AFBF on Undocumented Immigrants
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update.
**The USDA is seeking nominees to fill 57 producer and importer member seats and one public member seat on the National Potato Promotion Board.
The nominating process runs through August 15th when USDA will appoint individuals to succeed members whose terms expire next February.
Nominations for producer members are submitted by potato producers. Importers nominate importer members. Contact the National Potato Promotion Board for more information.
You may also contact USDA Marketing Specialist Stacy Jones King at (202)720-4140 or Stacy.JonesKing@usda.gov.
**The USDA will invest up to $1 billion, including $500 million in American Rescue Plan funding, in The Emergency Food Assistance Program to support and expand the emergency food network for food banks and local organizations.
USDA will enter into cooperative agreements with state, Tribal and local entities to more efficiently purchase food from local producers and invest in infrastructure to reach underserved communities more effectively.
This investment represents the first part of USDA’s new Build Back Better initiative.
**The American Farm Bureau Federation joined all 50 state Farm Bureaus and Puerto Rico in a letter urging the Biden administration to address the surge of undocumented immigrants entering the U.S.
www.agrimarketing.com reports, the letter notes the increase in illegal immigration is severely impacting farm and ranch families, putting property and personal safety at risk.
It continues saying that local and state border security resources have been exhausted, leaving little help for farmers and ranchers.
www.agrimarketing.com/s/136567
