Danone, General Mils and National Milk Producers Federation are also a part of this group.
January 16, 2024
Together, a group of 12 companies and trade groups are urging Congress to ensure WIC has the needed funds to ensure all eligible women, infants, and children who wish to enroll can be served by the program.
Public health dialogue around food and nutrition is evolving from a focus on simply providing calories to ensuring children and families have access to high-quality, nutritious food that will allow them to reach their full potential.
The final elimination of extra SNAP benefits nationwide in March reduced food and beverage aid by $23 billion annually.
July 11, 2023
SNAP households have also decreased their spending on non-food items at over three times the rate of their spending on food and beverages, according to Circana.
A community event held at Buche Foods in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, marked the launch of the HFMI project, Add Milk!, at 14 participating stores across the state of South Dakota.
June 29, 2023
Launched by the Auburn University’s College of Human Sciences Hunger Solutions Institute (HSI) and select retailers, it provides a dollar-for-dollar match for participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Auburn is the only entity to receive a Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives award for 2022.
October 19, 2022
The HFMI program, a result of the 2018 Farm Bill, uses incentives to encourage Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, participants to buy and consume qualifying milk as part of a healthy, balanced diet.
For decades, the federal government has worked to ensure all Americans are “food secure,” which simply means that everyone — regardless of economic circumstances — should have enough food to eat.
A fourth Lubbock, Texas, location to increase access to healthy fluid milk.
September 1, 2021
The Add Milk! pilot project, created in the 2018 USDA farm bill, is designed to research whether incentive programs for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will increase the consumption of healthy fluid milk among SNAP recipients, according to The Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (Baylor University).