WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – The United States Department of Agriculture cut two programs that provide money for schools and food banks to buy food from local farmers: The Local Food for Schools cooperative agreement program and the Local Food Purchase Assistance cooperative agreement program (LFPA). The programs’ end suspends more than $1 billion in federal spending but is expected to have a widespread impact, including in the Sunflower State, where the Kansas Food Bank received $1.7 million from the LFPA funding to keep local produce in the state.
Now that funding has been cut, the Kansas Food Bank said Kansans in need will be impacted.
“The ones that it hurts the most [are] the folks that are food insecure,” said Kansas Food Bank President and CEO Brian Walker…