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Sep 29, 2016
As part of its role leading a coalition of farm and anti-hunger groups, the American Soybean Association (ASA) and Feeding America convened a meeting Wednesday in Washington to share ideas and ways to foster closer relationships between farmers and consumers headed into the next farm bill.
The meeting was the latest step in an effort to rebuild and strengthen the decades-old partnership between urban and rural interests, and is designed to keep the farm bill intact, as well as maintain the connection between farm and nutrition programs within it.
Moving forward, ASA and fellow coalition members will look to replicate successful local partnerships between agriculture and anti-hunger groups like Illinois’ Soy in the City program, in which the Illinois Soybean Association and Illinois Pork Producers Association donated 800 pounds of ground pork to the Bloom Township Food Pantry in Chicago Heights.
