Farmers First

During legislative session 2025 Louisiana FPC held a lobby day for ‘Farmers First’ a 3 million dollar appropriation was passed

cleaved into 3

Distributed on April 20, needs to be expended by June 30th.

How much money has been spent, to date?

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Where are purchases from?

As per the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry’s guidance, LAFPC must make purchases from the Local Food Purchasing Agreement list compiled by Feeding Louisiana and LDAF in partnership. While many vendors we work with in our markets are not on this list currently, we are working to onboard new vendors to the list in the timeframe that has been specified to us.

If you are a producer (not an aggregator or wholesaler but a direct producer) of agricultural goods in Louisiana.

Where is food distributed?

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