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Missouri Farmers Care: Drive to Feed Kids

The Missouri Farmers Care Coalition has launched a Drive to Feed Kids through the food bank distribution networks in the state.

Farmers Care Chairman, Alan Wessler, says there are parts of Missouri where one out of three children don’t know where their next meal is coming from. The coalition is partnering with Feeding Missouri, Brownfield Ag News, the Missouri State Fair and Missouri FFA to deliver kid-friendly meals to hungry children in the state, “I think it’s opened some doors and it’s also opened some eyes to folks that hunger is a bigger problem in Missouri that we may realize.”

Wessler says the Drive to Feed Kids is about feeding kids and more, “Highlighting the job that farmers and ranchers are doing in producing safe, wholesome and abundant food for us.”

Drive to Feed Kids events are taking place on the opening day of the Missouri State Fair, August 10th – including a film and Sawyer Brown concert – and during the Missouri FFA Food Insecurity Service day at the fair August 15th.

For information and to make monetary donations to the drive, click here.

AUDIO: Interview with Alan Wessler