BATON ROUGE -- On September 30, both LSU and Southern AgCenter's SNAP-Ed programs will come to an end. It comes as a result of federal budget changes under the One Big Beautiful Bill signed on July 4.

"SNAP-Ed, that was funded at the federal level by the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, so it's a comprehensive program that provides nutrition education to those who are eligible for food stamps or are receiving food stamps," LSU AgCenter Associate Professor Denise Holston said.

According to Holston, under the program's nutrition education realm, it teaches core concepts like healthy eating, food-dollar management so people can eat healthy on a limited budget, cooking skills, how parents can encourage their children to eat healthy on a limited budget, and

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