Missouri Farmers Care continues to team up with the

Missouri Pork Association to increase the amount of pork in food pantries across

the state through the Drive to Feed Kids Program. Scott Baker, the state

director of Feeding Missouri says Increasing the amount of available food is especially

critical now.

“We have seen demand spike over the last three months to unprecedented

numbers,” he said. “More and more people are needing to access emergency food

assistance, many of them for the first time ever.”

He says food pantry demand rose nearly 50 percent in that

time.

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