USDA, state offer grants to aid food supply chain

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service and the state of Alabama are partnering to help protect the state’s food supply chain. To accomplish the task, they will award some $5.7 million in grants for supply chain-oriented projects through the federal Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program. “This partnership between USDA and Alabama is allowing critical funding to reach areas of the supply chain that need it most,” said USDA Marketing and Regulatory Programs Under Secretary Jenny Lester Moffitt. “The projects funded through this program will create new opportun