USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks. States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

Reynolds’ initial request to the USDA would have provided monthly boxes of food to an estimated 300,000 kids in families making up to 200% of the federal poverty level.

Food bank partners with Sarasota and DeSoto County school districts and hundreds of community partners as part of Campaign ...