P.J. Huffstutter

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | P.J. Huffstutter

By P.J. HuffstutterRAINELLE, W.V. (Reuters) -The phone rang over the whine of Trey Yates' butter churn. The person calling was polite, but the message was devastating: Mountaineer Food Bank was ending Yates' butter contract, due to the federal government's funding cuts. The next day, President Donald Trump signed a declaration celebrating National Agriculture Day, praising farmers and food makers like Yates.

3 weeks ago | kfgo.com | P.J. Huffstutter |Emily Schmall

By P.J. HuffstutterRAINELLE, W.V. (Reuters) -The phone rang over the whine of Trey Yates’ butter churn. The person calling was polite, but the message was devastating: Mountaineer Food Bank was ending Yates’ butter contract, due to the federal government’s funding cuts. The next day, President Donald Trump signed a declaration celebrating National Agriculture Day, praising farmers and food makers like Yates.

4 weeks ago | japantoday.com | Leah Douglas |P.J. Huffstutter |Renee Hickman

Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration, according to Reuters interviews with organizations in seven states. Hunger in the U.S. has ticked up in recent years with rising inflation and the end of pandemic-era programs that expanded food aid.

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Leah Douglas |P.J. Huffstutter |Renee Hickman

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1 month ago | bilyonaryo.com | P.J. Huffstutter |Leah Douglas |Tom Polansek

SOURCE: Reuters USDA grant freeze impacts farmers’ financial stability Farmers face bankruptcy, economic uncertainty due to freeze Trump administration’s freeze affects USDA conservation, food programs By P.J. Huffstutter, Leah Douglas, Tom Polansek CHICAGO/WASHINGTON, March 10 – Nate Powell-Palm, an organic farmer outside Belgrade, Montana, was relying on a $648,000 grant from USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service to help build a feed mill – an economic lifeline for about 150 area organic...