Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Democrat Debbie Stabenow has introduced the Food Supply Protection Act. Nebraska Farmers Union members are in the process of studying the bill. President John Hansen says it contains several components agriculture has been looking for including providing support for farmers and ranchers and food banks as well as moving unprocessed products.

He says the pandemic has caused a lot of economic devastation that’s causing more people to need the services of food banks just to meet their basic needs.

Hansen says while there’s wide support for the measure, the main problem is that it need some bi-partisan backing.

Stabenow’s bill provides infrastructure grants that can be used for additional cold storage and refrigeration transportation, personal protective equipment, rental costs and use of commercial and community infrastructure.