Marcoot Jersey Creamery Launches Food Bank Fundraiser
April 15, 2025 | 1 min to read
When federal funding cuts eliminated local food purchases for pantries, the Marcoot Jersey Creamery in Greenville, Illinois, initiated a fundraising campaign to overcome the $17.8 million loss from the Local Food Purchase Assistance program. This abrupt funding loss disrupted essential transactions between farmers and food banks and left the creamery unable to fulfill a significant cheese order. The women behind the creamery stepped up to ensure the mission of supporting local food banks continued unabated.
When federal funding cuts eliminated local food buys for food pantries earlier this spring, the women behind an Illinois dairy stepped up with a fundraising campaign of their own.
What does a creamery do when a single entity purchases 48,000 pieces of cheese annually through federal funding that’s no longer available?
Illinois farmers and food banks started facing a challenge in March due to abrupt cuts to the Local Food Purchase Assistance program. The $17.8 million funding loss halted mutually beneficial transactions between farmers and food banks. Unable to fulfill a large cheese order to a local food bank, Marcoot Jersey Creamery, Greenville, Ill., launched a campaign to complete the orders as originally planned, despite funding cuts.
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