20/03/2025
The trickle-down effect of what is happening with the federal government has hit food banks ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
In my weekly order form, I received this message from YCAP staff, who, by the way, are working hard to get food banks as much food as they can: For the past few years, our food inventory has been shrinking. The forecast did not look good.
Now this news.
Please take a moment to read this message to all food banks.
Attached is the YCAP order form for March 20 to March 27. You can find the number of cases of food available in the far right column of the order form.
Most of these read 40 cases or below available. We have 40 partner agencies to divide these with. If you’re ordering 6 or 10 cases of each, that just can’t work mathematically. We’ll do what we can for you with the inventory we have.
Many items have to be ‘allocated’ to you with our warehouse supply, especially USDA foods so low. You will get products on your order that you weren’t expecting, but I think you’ll like everything that is sent. Food Bank inventory will likely remain at its current low levels.
A CCC Federal Grant to the Oregon Food Bank was CANCELED, along with many other programs and staff being cut at the Federal Government level. Below is an inventory message from the Oregon Food Bank.
This affects every state food bank and many school programs: Fresh Fluid USDA milk deliveries scheduled for May, June, and July are canceled. Two truckloads of Cheese have also been CANCELED, one from May and one from June.
Frozen Meat was affected by Federal cuts; a total of 13 expected 40,000 lb-truckloads of frozen pork, chicken, and turkey products were CANCELED.
We expect some of these to be replaced by Section 32 Bonus frozen meat items, but we don’t have control over what and when that product is offered.
We will have little to no USDA Produce available. This produce season also impacts access to donated produce, so expect lots of local, PNW crops: Apples, Pears, Onions, Potatoes, and Vegetables!
