State YF&R Committee members and several KFB Staff members donated 39 volunteer hours working at the Kansas Food Bank.

Anderson County Farm Bureau presented ECKAN (East Central Economic Opportunity Corporation) with $150 in food and money. Later in the year, we collected $170 from an office party to donate to our local ECKAN “Spirit of Christmas” program. 

Atchison County Farm Bureau donated $500 to the Atchison County Food Pantry.

Bourbon County Farm Bureau donated $150 to The Beacon food pantry.

Brown County Farm Bureau donated 6 volunteer hours during their Community Thanksgiving Dinner.

Cherokee County Farm Bureau spent $100 on food and snacks for the Ronald McDonald house and $40 for the Methodist Food Pantry and donated an additional 50 pounds of food and 12 volunteer hours to the RMH.

Creative Idea: Our women's committee donates food to the Ronald McDonald House. The board takes up a monetary collection of their own for the Methodist Church Food Pantry.

Cheyenne County Farm Bureau donated $150 in food and gift certificates and 5 volunteer hours.

Clark County Farm Bureau held two hamburger/hot dog cookouts and served around 60-70 people at each location.

Cloud County Farm Bureau donated a $25 gift certificate to a local grocery store and held a drawing for Kailey’s Ag book series.

Comanche County Farm Bureau donated $30 gift certificates.

Crawford County Farm Bureau donated two $25.00 gift cards to Ron's IGA.

Cowley County Farm Bureau donated $250 dollars worth of groceries and 3 volunteer hours to the Ronald McDonald House.

Decatur County Farm Bureau donated $100 and 2 volunteer hours to their local food bank.

Dickinson County Farm Bureau donated 200 lbs of Food and 2.5 volunteer hours to the Food Pantries in Herington & Abilene

Creative Idea:
This food was canned goods that were collected at our County Annual Meeting. In lieu of a charge for the dinner, members were asked to bring a canned goods donation for the local food pantries.

They also donated eight bushel baskets of grocery items ($340 value) and seven hours of volunteer hours to local needy families.

Creative Idea:
We purchased the items for a Christmas dinner consisting of Roast beef, mashed potatoes, carrots, gravy, rolls, butter, milk, hot chocolate, cookies, and oranges. The goods were packaged in bushel baskets along with Rainbow beans (chocolate covered soybeans) and Kailey's ag books. Several local YF&R couples delivered the baskets with a horse and wagon to 8 local families that were in need of assistance on Christmas Eve.

Douglas County Farm Bureau- spent $96 on loaves of break they gave away and donated $250 in grocery gift cards to 5 area food pantries.

Elk County Farm Bureau handed out 57 $1 coupons and volunteered 2 hours. They also donated $25 worth of food to the Elk County Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry.

Ford County Farm Bureau donated $150 worth of groceries to Manna House and $180 to Friendship Feast. In Dec. They also donated $50 each to Salvation Army and Friendship Feast.

Franklin County Farm Bureau donated $100 worth of food to the Hope House.

Gove County Farm Bureau spent $260.21for 140 loaves of bread, which were distributed between three county grocery stores involving four volunteers over the course of one business day.

Gray County Farm Bureau held a hamburger/hot dog feed at the Cimarron grocery store.

Greeley County Farm Bureau served a free lunch to local grocery store shoppers.

Greenwood County Farm Bureau donated $100 to local shoppers to help pay for grocery items.

Harper County Farm Bureau gave out $100 worth of loaves of bread and volunteered 7 hours at area grocery stores.

Harvey County Farm Bureau donated $50 each to 3 county food banks and the homeless shelter.

Jefferson County Farm Bureau donated $200.00 worth of groceries to the local food bank, God’s Storehouse.

Johnson County Farm Bureau donated $700 worth of food (750 pounds) to Harvesters food bank in Kansas City.

Labette County Farm Bureau distributed 200 table tents to restaurants/cafes in Labette County during 9 hours of volunteer time.

Lane County Farm Bureau donated $250 to the Grace Café and $250 to the Lane County Food Bank.

Leavenworth County Farm Bureau donated $500 worth of groceries to the Leavenworth Assistance Center.

Linn County Farm Bureau donated $300 to local food pantries.

Logan County Farm Bureau joined together with Oakley’s IGA to donate $158.94 worth of groceries to God’s Food Pantry.

Lyon County Farm Bureau gave away 5 totes full of groceries averaging $35 each.

Miami County Farm Bureau donated $250 to the All American Beef Battalion.

Nemaha County Farm Bureau donated $200 worth of food and two volunteer hours to the Nemaha County Food Pantry.

Creative Idea: Donated $100 for Food Check Out Day & $100 for State Farm Bureau Day.

Neosho County Farm Bureau gave away 4 gift certificates at $25 each. ($100 total)

Ness County Farm Bureau spent a total of $110.71 on two local resident’s grocery store purchases and supplies.

Norton County Farm Bureau donated 2 gift certificates totaling $50 and gave away approximately $60 in meals from area grocery stores.

Osborne County Farm Bureau donated $300 to local food pantries ($150 each to Downs Ministerial Alliance and Osborne Ministerial Alliance).

Ottawa County Farm Bureau spent about $130.00 and had 2 volunteers who worked a total of 8 hours.

Pottawatomie County Farm Bureau purchased $100 worth of groceries and took it to the food pantry in St. George KS.

Pratt County Farm Bureau gave away two $50.00 gift certificates to Dillon’s. Food and cash donations of $162.05 were collected for the Pratt Christian Food Bank.

Reno County Farm Bureau donated a $50 gift card to Dillion’s and 4 volunteer hours.

Rooks County Farm Bureau collected 13.5 pounds of food.

Saline County Farm Bureau- donated 96 dozen eggs and 36 pound boxes of butter ($225 total) to the Saline Emergency Food Bank

Scott County Farm Bureau donated $130 and 2 volunteer hours.

Sedgwick County Farm Bureau donated $1000 dollars worth of groceries and 24 volunteer hours to the Ronald McDonald House. They also donated 528 pounds of food and three volunteer hours to the Kansas Food Bank.

Seward County Farm Bureau donated $50 in groceries and 2 volunteer hours at the local Dillion’s store.

Shawnee County Farm Bureau donated $500 worth of food to the Ronald McDonald House in Topeka and $2700 was spent on groceries. (4 volunteer hours)

Sheridan County Farm Bureau donated $100 to the local food pantry and $300 to the Redding Tornado Fund.

Sherman County Farm Bureau spent $400 for supplies and grocery totes and $250 to Genesis, which is our local food bank for Harvest for All.

Stafford County Farm Bureau donated $150 to three schools in the community.

Sumner County Farm Bureau donated $500.00 to the Wellington Food Bank.

Thomas County Farm Bureau donated $200 of ground beef to Genesis Food Bank from J&B Meat Market and donated $100 to each of the Thomas County elementary schools who participated in the backpack program.

Trego County Farm Bureau donated 125 loaves of bread, two $25.00 grocery gift cards and 50 Blue grocery bags ($281.63) They also gave $50.00 donations to two food pantries in WaKeeney.

Wabaunsee County Farm Bureau donated 18 lbs. of food ($45 worth) to the county food pantry and gave away $75 worth of food to customers at a local grocery store for 2 hours.