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Can someone please give a rationale for this?

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4meAndyou · F
"NOVOTNY: Our food banks receive a few different sources of emergency food assistance. We have entitlement foods that are appropriated through traditional farm bill procedures and appropriations, and those are the foods that we can most reliably count on to consistently come into our docks. And then we often receive product through bonus or Section 32 purchases, which are designed to help the USDA support markets that are maybe in surplus or have a little bit of difficulty selling or buying. And then we have an opportunity to, thankfully, bring in additional product through the Commodity Credit Corporation. And those are the orders that we had, that we were expecting to see coming in, that we've received some changes in order status on. So we don't know if those TEFAP orders - the Emergency Food Assistance Program, or TEFAP, orders - have been permanently canceled or if they are merely halted. What we do know is without that food in the near term, we are going to struggle to meet our current demand."

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5335624/how-ohios-food-banks-are-dealing-with-extensive-cuts-from-the-usda