Pennsylvania officials filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday over its termination of the Local Food Purchase Assistance 2025 Cooperative Agreement (LFPA25 Agreement).

The Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA) provides federal funding to states to purchase local food from regional producers for distribution through food banks and school lunch programs. The USDA notified state officials in March that the program was being cut for the remainder of the 2025 fiscal year . In a letter sent to the impacted states, the USDA explained the program was being cut because it “no longer effectuates agency priorities”.

Pennsylvania touts the success of previous LFPA funding, which provided 30 million pounds of food, with

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