Trade Mitigation: AMS to Purchase $44M in Food, Including Spuds

On August 27, 2018, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, announced details of actions the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would take to assist farmers in response to trade damage from unjustified retaliation.

As part of those actions, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service announces the Food Purchase of up to $44,505,000 under the authority of Section 5 of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Charter Act for distribution to various food nutrition assistance programs.

Solicitations will be issued in the near future and will include, but are not limited to:

Questions regarding this procurement should be directed to the following contacts:
David Cottrell, david.cottrell@ams.usda.gov,

David Jackson, davidc.jackson@ams.usda.gov

SEE THE FULL DETAILS HERE: USDA