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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded $512 million for fresh produce purchases through renewed contracts to companies packing and distributing in the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. The total awards announced by the USDA July 1 is $1.27 billion in renewed contracts, and $202 million in new contracts that are mostly to produce companies. That’s on top of the original $2.2 billion announced for the first round of contracts on May 8.
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