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  • Oklahoma livestock producers are joining the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and other groups focused on feeding hungry Oklahoma children with a new project, Beef for Backpacks. The project will use donated cattle to produce beef sticks for the Food Bank’s Food for Kids Backpack Program. Last school year, 3,641 students received a backpack each week. From left: Tom Buchanan, president of the Oklahoma Farming and Ranching Foundation; Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb; Monica Wilke, executive director of the Oklahoma Farming and Ranching Foundation; and Rodney Bivens, executive director of the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. Courtesy photo

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October 11, 2012

Beef for Backpacks

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Oklahoma livestock producers are joining the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and other groups focused on feeding hungry Oklahoma children with a new project, Beef for Backpacks. The project will use donated cattle to produce beef sticks for the Food Bank’s Food for Kids Backpack Program.

The Beef for Backpacks program is a collaboration among the Oklahoma Farming and Ranching Foundation, Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Oklahoma Beef Council, Oklahoma State University Food and Agricultural Products Center and the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.

 The Food for Kids program was started by the Food Bank in 2003 to provide chronically hungry children with food-filled backpacks for weekends and school holidays. The program serves 475 elementary schools in 53 counties across central and western Oklahoma, providing backpacks to more than 13,500 chronically hungry children each week.

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