Mike Conaway: “It puts organizations like us, and private universities and non-land-grant universities at a competitive disadvantage.”

The Farmers to Families Food Box Program (FFFBP) was the victim of a rushed process that included no engagement with current distributors and nonprofits and resulted in cherry-picked contractors who were not qualified.

We urge Congress to continue to provide people the means to access healthy food.

It is critical and absolutely crucial that food assistance and agriculture development efforts focus on building resilience.

I want American farmers participating in this, and American people support these programs in large part because they think it is American-grown products that are being used over there.