The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) will use cooperative agreement funds to support Utah’s small ranchers and provide school food service programs access to beef and bison products. USBE will procure competitive contracts with local meat producers and processors. Cooperative agreement funds will then be sub-awarded to school food service programs. Schools will work directly with contracted vendors to arrange ordering and delivery, and will invoice USBE for reimbursement, up to the total amount of their award.

The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service requests applications from states, territories and tribal governments for the expansion of the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program (LFPA Plus), which was announced in November 2022.

The Spirit Lake Tribe is applying for a Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program allocation to procure and distribute domestic and tribal grown food to an underserved and impoverished community that is in a designated Promise Zone.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the appointment of 13 members to serve on the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board. Twelve of the 13 appointees will serve three-year terms, effective immediately, through Oct. 31, 2025. The remaining appointee will serve the remaining two years of a vacant position, effective immediately and expiring October 31, 2024.

The newly appointed members are:

With funding provided by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service’s Local Foods Purchasing Agreement, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will establish Aandanjigewin, a food distribution program that will:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has extended the deadline to Jan. 6, 2023, for submission of the Regional Food Business Centers Request for Applications (RFA) (pdf). USDA previously announced changes to the RFA relating to the indirect cost rate. Pursuant to 2 CFR 200.414(c)(1), USDA is required to accept the Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA) from those entities that have one.