Lawmakers have until Friday to pass the first of their fiscal 2024 spending bills, including the measure needed to fund USDA, or they’ll have to pass another stopgap spending measure to avert a partial shutdown of the government. The Biden administration also is scheduled to announce a critical update of the GREET model that’s used to measure the carbon intensity of biofuels.
On the final day of 2023, and the final day on which states were able to opt-in, Missouri’s Department of Social Services submitted notice to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s division of Food and Nutrition Services that it plans to participate in the federal Summer EBT program in the coming year, according to a source familiar with the matter.
For many New Hampshire public school students, getting breakfast at school is not a priority. The Granite State has one of the largest divides in the country between the number of school breakfasts eaten and the number of school lunches eaten, according to numbers from the Food Research and Action Center. While an average of […]
At Ilima Intermediate School, teacher Sarah Milianta-Laffin often sees students standing around the trash cans after lunch, asking their peers if they can eat the leftovers off their lunch tray. Milianta-Laffin purchases around $500 worth of snacks at the start of each school year to keep in her classroom, anticipating that some students will need […]