As you may have heard, the Trump Administration imposed a host of new requirements and changes to the Farmers to Families Food Box Program (FFFBP) that originally made the initiative unworkable for Oregon Food Bank. We made the difficult decision to decline participation in the final phase of the program.

One reason was that USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue announced last week that the program will officially end on October 31, 2020. 

After sharing our serious concerns with longtime distribution…