Max Armstrong shares that National Food Bank Day is coming. Max looks at how hunger has touched all parts of society and those food banks help 42 million people in need. Whether it’s illness, or job loss, or some other uncontrollable factor can lead to the need to reach out to a food bank. Max offers insight into how rural food banks help too.

Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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