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Your recent article, “Federal cuts mean an 18% reduction for food banks” (April 22), about cuts to the Oregon Food Bank from the federally-chartered Commodity Credit Corp., fails to paint the ...
The U.S. government already uses the Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation to play a similar function in 22 agricultural commodity markets, protecting American farmers from the ...
However, recent cuts to programs like the Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) and the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) have already impacted food availability, resulting in a loss of ...
The first Trump administration provided trade mitigations that increased available food for food banks and the Biden administration provided Commodity Credit Corporation funds to help food banks ...
Specifically, members pressed Rollins on the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement, which was cancelled entirely, and the pullback of Commodity Credit Corporation funds for TEFAP.
The Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, like similar facilities across the country, is still in a wait-and-see mode after U.S. Department of Agriculture funding cuts bit into local food bank supplies ...
Pingree also suggested that since the LFPA program was funded through the Commodity Credit Corporation, the funds are being pulled back to potentially be used as a tariff bailout. During the first ...
In 2022, the Biden administration announced the program as a pilot, funded by the USDA through the Commodity Credit Corporation. Farmers received technical and financial support from government ...
USDA will utilize Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) authority to finance the effort. An initial tranche of approximately $950 million will support the purchase, shipment and distribution of ...
RAPP was launched by Vilsack in October 2023, authorizing $1.2 billion in Commodity Credit Corporation funding to help U.S. exporters expand their customer base beyond traditional and established ...
In December 1952 the company was indicted for converting to its own and its customers’ use 80,000 bushels of corn stored for the Commodity Credit Corp. (The case is still to be tried.) ...