FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) – All across the country, food banks are feeling the impact of USDA funding cuts, and the impact will be felt in North Dakota.
The Great Plains Food Bank says they will be losing around $1 million in funding from the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program. In 2024, around 152,000 people throughout North Dakota received food from the food bank.
“With these cuts, we will see individuals impacted all over the state,” said Kate Molbert, COO of Great Plains Food Bank. “It’s hard to exactly quantify how many people will be impacted, but with the value of food that we distribute every year, we can kind of back into how much less food we will be able to distribute.”
A second round of funding was also cut from the Great Plains Food Bank, which helped their commodities and being able to provide things such as canned fruits and vegetables and fresh produce and nutritious food that they would distribute regularly.
“For value, a pretty significant dollar value of about $300,000 has been canceled so far, and we expect further cancelations down the road,” said Molbert.
Being strategic in 2025 will be a big factor in getting as much nutritious food out to those in need, and the food bank will rely on others for help.
” We rely on the generosity of financial and food donors, so we’ll continue to leverage those relationships,” Molbert said. “We do purchase food where necessary, so if we can generate funds, we have a really strategic food sourcing team that can find food at very low cost and high quantity to try to backfill some of those gaps.”
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