Markets can help by encouraging members of their communities to write letters to the editors of local papers and by doing Dot Surveys to capture what market goers think about high standards for good food in schools, and then sending those sheets to your congresspeople. This is a very clear ...
MFP for 2019, authorized under the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Charter Act and administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA), is providing approximately $14.5 billion in direct payments to producers. Additionally, CCC Charter Act authority is being used to implement a $1.4 billion Food Pur...
At that time (1935), Public Law 320 was passed by Congress that enabled the government to purchase excess foods from the market and channel them elsewhere [1,2]. School lunch programs became an optimal target for this commodity surplus, which led to their subsequent expansion. However, this ...