Mark your calendar from March the 28th from 9 until Midnight almost and Blakely, Georgia. It’s the Peanut Proud Festival. Everyone’s invited to attend a parade lots of entertainment and lots of fun.
We’ve been working on the 2.0 farm bill good news. In addition the bill includes important provisions Related to international and emergency food assistance that will be utilizing peanuts and peanut butter The allocation is 200 million dollars in that bill to support emergency food assistant programs for the procurement and distribution of ready-to-use Therapeutic foods that will provide meaningful benefits to the entire US peanut industry furthermore transferring the authority of from the food in a For Peace Act from the US Agency for International Development.
Don’t move it over to the US Department of Agriculture and they will expand opportunities for program participation So that bill are also reserves 50% of the food for peace resources for US Granted commodities and that will include peanuts, but that’s cool working on now the 2.0 Farm bill 2.0 going on in Washington.
Audio Reporting by Tyron Spearman for Southeast AgNet.