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A new United States Department of Agriculture report found food insecurity rates have increased since 2021 and Oklahoma is one of the top six states in the metric.
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17 million U.S. households were food insecure in 2022. That's 3.5 million more than the prior year. Families with children and people of color experienced higher than average rates of food insecurity.
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Euchee Butterfly Farm is receiving almost $750,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide Indigenous producers access to departmental resources.
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Farmers say Title One — a farm bill program that sends money when crop prices or harvests get low enough — isn’t working as a buffer against tough years. Yet others argue the nearly 100-year-old safety net is costing billions of dollars with few strings attached.
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Serving farm fresh food in schools is getting big federal support — but will 'farm to school' stick?The Farm-to-School movement is out to revolutionize the humble school lunch with food grown on local farms. But the path from cropland to cafeteria is full of complicated twists and turns. A new wave of federal funding is trying to smooth the way.
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Recent heat and drought have fueled concerns about this year’s corn crop, as producers in the Midwest see a wide range of conditions.
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More than three dozen rural Oklahoma businesses and agriculture producers will receive funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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An Oklahoma tribal nation and two telephone companies are receiving $67.4 million to expand broadband access in rural Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma’s only historically Black university will receive funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to strengthen its agricultural sciences programs.
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A majority of the households in the counties experienced extended power losses following severe storms on June 17.