Source: Jessica Fu, THE COUNTER, 10/22/20



Update, October 23, 2020, 1:30 p.m.: After this story was published, USDA announced it would extend the Farmers to Families Food Box program to run through December 31, 2020. Previously, the agency had indicated that the initiative would end on October 31. We have updated this post to reflect the changes.

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has repeatedly called the Farmers to Families Food Box program—the Trump administration’s flagship hunger relief initiative during the pandemic—a “win-win-win” that benefits farmers, distributors, and food-insecure families in one fell swoop. But despite being prominently featured in the program name, farmers are saying that its most recent round has all but shut them out.

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