Mann introduces bill to maintain US products in global food aid programs

A bill that’s been introduced into the US House would require that US-grown commodities are included in international food aid programs.

Kansas Representative Tracey Mann tells Brownfield the goal of his legislation is simple. “To be sending not money, but to be sending commodities because it benefits our ag producers, US shippers and it benefits the people that receive it on the other end.  We’ve seen a drifting away from that.”

The American Farmers Feed the World Act would restore the original intent of the Food for Peace program without sending additional farm bill resources. 

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