Sean Ross shares food, brings hope to Mid-Missouri

Central Pantry in Columbia, Missouri doesn’t look like a typical food pantry. The food isn’t rationed out or held in a church basement. Instead, it looks a lot like grocery store with aisles and shopping carts, a produce section, and even walk-in freezers for meat and frozen food. It’s set up this way because of…

Making sense of $8.7 billion in cuts to food stamps

By Meghan Eldridge  COLUMBIA, Mo. — With the signing of the Agriculture Act of 2014, better known as the Farm Bill, on Feb. 7, a wave of changes hit the farming sector and people affected by changes in the national food system. In particular, the bill made significant cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…