Protect The Harvest Joins The Fight To Feed Missouri’s Hungry

By Ammoland

$5,000 donation to Missouri Farmers Care “Drive to Feed Kids” campaign.

Corona, CA –-(Ammoland.com)- Forrest and Charlotte Lucas’s agriculture initiative “Protect The Harvest” (PTH) is donating $5,000 to the Missouri Farmers Care (MFC) campaign to help combat childhood food insecurity.

The “Drive to Feed Kids” will leverage food bank distribution networks to deliver kid-friendly meals to hungry children across Missouri. The Drive is led by Missouri Farmers Care, Feeding Missouri, Brownfield Ag News, the Missouri State Fair and Missouri Future Farmers of America (FFA).

MFC representatives say that even in the nation’s agricultural heartland hunger is a problem. Missouri’s rate of childhood food insecurity is among the highest in the nation. Hunger isn’t restricted to children, either. In rural communities throughout the state as many as 1 in 5 people face food insecurity. Among children, the numbers are even higher. In parts of Missouri, 1 in 3 children face food insecurity on a regular basis.

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