Kansas ag producers who received grants during the COVID-19 pandemic to help secure local food systems say the funds expanded their ability to reach customers and meet demand.
Aaron Moreland with Cedar Vale Locker says he used the money to, “hire new staff and our production has gone up about 80 percent, which gave us the ability to hold more animals, process more animals and it has been a challenge but we’re moving along.”
The Securing Local Food Systems grants were created to support Kansas meat processing facilities, food processors, food banks, local direct-to-consumer producers, and retail outlets to increase capacity of Kansas’ local food systems.
