LFPA Executive Summary – Alaska
The Alaska Local Food Purchase Program (AFLPP) will provide grant funding for purchase of locally grown and produced foods from farmers in Alaska.
Continuance Referendum: Onions Grown in South Texas
Docket Number: AMS-SC-22-0039
Dates:
USDA Announces Dates for the South Texas Onion Continuance Referendum
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will conduct a referendum Sept. 1 through Oct. 3, 2022, for South Texas onion producers to vote on whether to continue their federal marketing order. Producers who produced onions within South Texas during the period of Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021, are eligible to vote. Notice of the referendum was published in the Federal Register on July 8, 2022.
State Agency Contacts for Local Food for Schools (LFS) Program
Northeast Region
- Connecticut – Monica Pacheco, monica.pacheco@ct.gov
Mid-Atlantic Region
- New Jersey - Nicole Broadwater - nicole.broadwater@ag.nj.gov
- Pennsylvania – Caryn Long Earl, cearl@pa.gov
- Virginia – Bee Thorp, Brittany.thorp@doe.virginia.g
LFPA Executive Summary – Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Local Farmers Programs for Underserved Populations will provide outreach and target socially disadvantaged farmers and producers to provide local foods to underserved communities. The goal is to identify socially disadvantaged farmers and producers and provide an opportunity for them to distribute food products to local communities and therefore expand economic development, not only for the producer, but for the communities they serve.