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Resource | Federal Register Notices Expanding Fluid Milk Options in Child Nutrition Programs

This final rule with comment period expands fluid milk options by allowing schools and child and adult care providers participating in child nutrition programs to offer whole and reduced-fat milk to participants two years and older.

05/08/2026
Resource | Report to Congress Fiscal Year 2024 USDA Nutrition Education Coordination Report to Congress

The USDA Nutrition Education Report to Congress Fiscal Year 2024 offers a description of nutrition education within the United States Department of Agriculture and a summary of coordinated nutrition education activities completed from October 2023 through September 2024.

04/23/2026
Grant Fiscal Year 2026 National School Lunch Program Equipment Assistance Grants

We are pleased to announce the availability of $20 million to provide grants on a competitive basis to state agencies for the National School Lunch Program Equipment Assistance Grants.

 

04/16/2026
Resource | Guidance Documents Paid Lunch Equity: Guidance for School Year 2026-2027

The purpose of this memorandum is to provide guidance to state agencies and school food authorities on the paid lunch equity requirements for school year 2026-2027. 

04/14/2026
Resource | Toolkits Eat Real Food Toolkit: Posters and Graphics

This toolkit has been developed to share key messages from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Posters and graphics are available for you to download and use with patients, clients and colleagues and share through social media. 

04/13/2026
Basic page Eat Real Food Toolkit

This toolkit has been developed to share key messages from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans including eat real food.

04/13/2026
Resource | Federal Register Notices Proposed Information Collection: 60-Day Public Comment Request for the Study Food Price Data Collection in the Non-Contiguous States and U.S. Territories

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on this proposed information collection for the Food Price Data Collection in the Non-Contiguous States and U.S. Territories Study. This is a new information collection request.

04/09/2026
Resource | Federal Register Notices Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2026 - 2027)

This notice announces the Department's annual adjustments to the Income Eligibility Guidelines to be used in determining eligibility for free and reduced-price meals, free milk, and Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer benefits for the period from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027.

04/09/2026
Resource | Federal Register Notices Information Collection: USDA Professional Standards Trainings and Tracker Tool (PSTTT)

This collection is an extension, without change, of a currently approved collection for assisting state agencies and school nutrition professionals in searching for trainings, recording, tracking, and managing the required training hours for state and local school district nutrition professionals, in four major areas (nutrition, operations, administration, and communications and marketing), to meet the requirements of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 Professional Standards Rule.

03/31/2026
Basic page Study Series: School Meal Program Operations

We have studied school meal program operations for a long time. You can access published reports that go back to school year 1988-89. Each study in this series focuses on topics that are important to program operations at the time. Sometimes the studies also collect information about other child nutrition programs, like the Child and Adult Care Food Program and Summer Food Service Program.

03/24/2026
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