USDA Cuts Local Food Programs
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'Going to be a lot of hungry people': Food banks, farmers across US decry federal cuts
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U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it was cutting more than $1 billion in funding for programs to help food banks distribute healthy, local food.
Food banks and farmers say they will have less food to give to their communities.
Rural communities will be hit the hardest because they depend the most on USDA -funded programs for the food distributed by food banks.
The USDA said the cuts were a "return to long-term, fiscally responsible initiatives".
A Wisconsin beekeeper was able to provide about 3,000 pounds of honey to the St. Croix Valley Food Bank in northwest Wisconsin in the last couple years .
School children will lose out, Iowa food service director says.
Locally grown produce stays fresh longer and keeps its nutritional value, an Arizona farmer says.
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