Missouri's 2025 state budget includes less than a third of the federal funding the state received for Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program grants. More than a dozen producers with selected projects are without funding for now.
The day Emily Wright expected to hear whether her vegetable and flower farm in mid-Missouri would receive grant funding to expand its operations, she was anxious.
"I was out in the field and I was just doing like a million different things to try to keep myself busy…" Wright said about the day in July. "All I could think about is just waiting for this press release or this email."
Wright and her partner Paul Weber own Three Creeks Farm + Forest in Ashland. They sell their produce wholesale to places like restaurants and floral designers in the area.
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