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| https://www.cochran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=7dfc1082-6a72-4bfa-9e5d-79c88674b5ef | OXFORD SCHOOLS RECEIVE USDA FARM TO SCHOOL GRANT, COCHRAN REPORTS | 2015-11-17 | 2015 | 2015-11 | Republican | House | MS | Thad Cochran | C000567 | www.cochran.senate.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today announced that the Oxford School District has been awarded an $80,000 grant to continue its efforts to use Mississippi-grown agriculture products in its school cafeterias. The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded the funding to Oxford through its Farm to School Program, which supports local efforts to increase local foods served through child nutrition programs. The Oxford schools have set a good example of promoting local agriculture to provide nutrition to students and to increase their knowledge of farming, said Cochran, who is a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee. I hope more schools in our state will be able to participate in this program. The Farm to School implementation grant will allow the Oxford schools to participate in a city-wide food hub with the Oxford City Market and support the use of garden projects for self-sustaining educational programs. In 2013, the school district received an initial Farm to School planning grant. Cochran and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) earlier this year introduced the Farm to School Act of 2015 (S.569), which would expand the Farm to School grant program that was initially created in 2004 but not funded until 2010. The 2015 legislation would increase school eligibility, reduce barriers for farmer participation, allow broader use of agriculture and aquaculture (including catfish) products, and restrict the amount of program funding that can be used for administrative costs. The bill would expand eligibility to land-grant colleges and universities, preschools, summer food service sites and after school programs. It would also create incentives for novice, veteran or socially-disadvantaged farmers and ranchers to participate in the program. ### LINKS: USDA Farm to School Program: http://1.usa.gov/1LIsdlS USDA Farm to School Census (Mississippi): http://1.usa.gov/1akUj9l National Farm to School Network: http://bit.ly/1JN4qUb | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |