This week Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the Department of Agriculture is ending the Farmers to Families Food Box program. Representative David Valadao, a California Republican, stated, “although it wasn’t a perfect program, this program provided families with healthy, nutritious food items grown here in the U.S.”
Vilsack says USDA will keep providing healthy food, but doing so through other avenues. USDA plans to take the best of the program, “and incorporate it into our traditional regular programs that are very efficient of food distribution,” Vilsack said.
USDA announced new pandemic aid programs Monday to help make up for the Farmers to Families Food Box program. The program was started by the Trump Administration as COVID-19 hit record highs. Farmers were dumping produce and food banks were in need so companies were hired to buy food, package it, and deliver it to those in need.
