Local Farmers Feeding our Communities Act

The bill would direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program providing cooperative agreements to State, local, or Tribal governments to purchase local foods from covered producers, with requirements that at least 25% of purchased foods come from small, mid-size, beginning, or veteran farmers or ranchers. It allocates funding—$200 million annually from the Commodity Credit Corporation, with 10% reserved for Tribal governments, 1% for each State, and the remainder distributed based on a formula from the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983. Funds must be used primarily to buy and distribute unprocessed or minimally processed local foods, provide technical assistance to…

No official summary is available here. This one was written by AI from the bill’s text.