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Over forty Minnesota organizations signed on to this letter to Senators Amy Kobuchar and Al Franken in support of The Local Farms, Food and Jobs Act. The Act offers opportunities to expand local food access to school children, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients, and seniors; helps farmers and ranchers engage in local and regional agriculture by addressing production, aggregation, processing, marketing, and direct-to-consumer and retail markets. This legislation is both an enhancement of existing policy and a set of new approaches that bolster local and regional food systems and helps level the playing for farmers and ranchers by providing the same types of risk management to farmers producing for local food systems that are available to commodity producers.

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