The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is celebrating another successful year of the Hunters Feeding Michigan program after it collected a record amount of venison for food pantries in fiscal 2025.

Hunters Feeding Michigan specialist Joe Presgrove tells us the program started in 2005 and asks hunters to donate meat they harvest.

“ Ever since then, it’s been growing,” Presgrove said. “ In fiscal year 2025, we hit an all -time record at 140 ,000 pounds of ground venison, which was donated by hunters. And that’s equivalent to about 560 ,000 servings.”

Fiscal year 2025 ran from October of 2024 to September of this year. Presgrove says hunters give to the program for a variety of reasons.

“ One, they mig

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