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Committee hears bid to add one-time milk funds to Farm-to-Food-Shelf base funding
Summary
Senators Mary Kupak and Mark Abler introduced companion bills to add a previously temporary $250,000 milk appropriation into the base funding for Minnesota’s Farm to Food Shelf program.
Senators Mary Kupak and Mark Abler on behalf of the Committee introduced companion bills, Senate File 629 and Senate File 257, that would add a 2023 supplement of $250,000 a year for milk into the Farm to Food Shelf program’s base appropriation.
Kupak told the panel the Farm to Food Shelf program, implemented by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, was established in 2016 to help Feeding America food banks purchase milk and protein and to pay for harvesting and handling of excess produce. She said the program’s base funding currently is $1,700,000 per year and that the $250,000 a year added in…
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