CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) -- Several groups in Central Illinois are teaming up and making sure people in need have access to food through the "Farmers Feeding Families" program.

United Way of Champaign County, Parkland College, and the Champaign School District are working together to raise crops and money for people struggling with food insecurity.

United Way of Champaign County rents more than 70 acres of farmable land from the Champaign School District, and Parkland College farms it.

Students in the Ag Technology Department plant and harvest corn and soybeans, and they know this kind of schoolwork is truly making a difference. Once all the crops are harvested, they take them to the grain bin, and 100% of the profits go to groups in the community that fight food insecurity.

Since 2014,

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