Feeding the US now... An immediate Turning point for small and medium processors. USDA Farmer to Family.

This is not an advertisement, rather just connecting people to people.

Much has gone on behind the scenes in the US food sector that is not obvious to the naked eye. To contextualize this in brief, when you shutter probably the worlds greatest collection of restaurants, eateries and coffee shops the raw materials remain unused. Large restaurant groups often purchase futures of commodities and crops are planted based on the usage numbers of the prior year. Now, you have a glut of fresh food going bad fast.

Our shelters, non-profit feeding posts, food banks and soup kitchens, are typically reliant on some of the overstock of those mass producers. So now we have this intersection of movement and need without a way to intersect the two so easily.

The US food industry has the infrastructure, cold rooms and clean handling practices in place and most likely down line time in small food manufacturing facilities and chill rooms most used for the packaging and creation of things like the delicious salads and sandwiches you see chilled at your local favorite coffee shop and in your snack box on your favorite airline!

So here is the opportunity to get busy again with an essential task of handling the fresh food and packing it up for local non-profits and delivering to them! I have been in the international food industry for over 30 years and I have walked through many of these spotless facilities. They are poised and ready to help define a new tomorrow! I hear so many companies touting "Farm to Table", well put your efforts where your mouth is!

The USDA has posted an RFP asking for companies to do this exact duty. Receive fresh food, package it up and deliver to regional areas for handling, getting fresh food into the hands of those hungry, needing fresh sustenance to remain healthy and nourished.

USDA information here

I am calling on those businesses that have the facilities, staff and infrastructure to pull this together quickly to act now! The above USDA link will bring you to the USDA website and instruct a company how to register with the USDA as a paid vendor. According to the post, this is paid contractual work, not pro bona.

This could be a way for a small to mid-sized food company can also save their business. I see this as a new tomorrow and a need to have future government contracts can bolster ANY business portfolio.

Here is a short quote from what you will read about on their site:

USDA will issue a solicitation to invite proposals from offerors to supply commodity boxes to non-profit organizations, identified by the offeror, on a mutually agreeable, recurring schedule. USDA will award contracts for the purchase of the agricultural products, the assembly of commodity boxes and delivery to identified non-profit organizations that can receive, store and distribute food items.

This is the right thing to do for America, for our Farmers and for our people. This could be a real win at this new today, together!

I pray and wish you all good health, strong fast healing and a blessed tomorrow - together.

John Csukor, CEO - KOR Food Innovation LLC