food banks

USDA and the state of Washington have announced a cooperative agreement to purchase local foods.  Under the agreement signed with AMS, the Washington State Department of Agriculture will purchase and distributed locally grown and/or processed food from underserved producers.  Th...

Back in the fall, the Washington state Department of Agriculture announced a new grant program to help expand hunger relief efforts statewide. The Department opened those grants up to all eligible hunger relief organizations serving Washington communities whether or not they were previously contract with WSDA to distribute food assistance. ...

The Washington state Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for the Flexible Funding grants, a new grant program intended to help those trying to address hunger in their local community. The WSDA’s Hector Castro says the grants are eligible to projects in three categories: Those making food distribution more efficient Those targeting community needs Pilot projects, innovations and fo

March is National Ag Month, and to mark the event, Second Harvest is highlighting it’s relationship with the local Ag community.  Jean Tucker, said being headquartered in Pasco and Spokane allows them to serve the needs of thousands of hungry people across Central and Eastern Washington and even Northern Idaho.   “...

In August, Cargill launched the #putyourherdfirst campaign to support The Great American Milk Drive.  How did the drive fair?   More than 65,000 people engaged with the campaign on Facebook and Cargill announced that all 200 food banks in the Feeding America network will receive 500 servings of milk through the campaign.  A Cargill sp...

Food banks are benefiting from President Trump's trade war with China.  USA Today reports the tit-for-tat trade war offers more variety for U.S. food banks through the administration's trade mitigation package for farmers.   With the Department of Agriculture buying commodities to help ease the burden on farmers, those items will show up in U.S. food banks,...

You could say there are organizations in the U.S. benefiting from the retaliatory tariffs implemented by China.  Rod Bain explains.         If you have a story idea for the Washington Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail gvaagen@cherrycreekradio.com...

While many associate it as a more urban problem, officials with 2nd Harvest say hunger is just as big of a problem in rural communities and the cities.  Latest statistics says one-out-of-eight adults, and one-out-of-four children are hungry.  An...

The Organic Farm at Washington State University is working with area food banks to help provide healthy food to those in need.   Farm Director Brad Jaeckel said the farm has been invested in these partnerships since it began in 2004.  ...

The USDA has announced that they will be purchasing $20 million in cheese products and donating it to food banks to help both those in need and reduce the oversupply of cheese.   The purchase is the second by the USDA this year as well as payments under the Dairy Margin Protection Program which have worked to help alleviate challenges faced by the industry.  ...