Protect The Harvest | Missouri Cares Drive to Feed Kids Provides 2.4 Million Meals to Missouri Families Facing Food Insecurity

Protect The Harvest is proud to announce that our founders, Forrest and Charlotte Lucas, were once again sponsors of Missouri Farmers Care Foundation’s Drive to Feed Kids and Hogs for Hunger.

“Forrest and Charlotte Lucas have made an outsized impact in Missouri agriculture through their leadership and generosity,” said Ashley McCarty, Missouri Farmers Care Foundation executive director.

“Protect The Harvest has been a leader in raising awareness and support for agricultural production and protection of rural and agricultural values and way of life. Their generosity through Hogs for Hunger and the Drive to Feed Kids has met needs and brightened the future for Missouri children and families.”

On August 20, 2022, Missouri Farmers Care Foundation and its partners announced that enough resources were raised to provide 2,425,185 meals to help food insecure children across the state of Missouri as a result of their 2022 Drive to Feed Kids.

“Partners in the Drive to Feed Kids generously respond to address the stark reality that 1 in 7 Missouri children regularly face hunger,” said Executive Director of Missouri Farmers Care Foundation Ashley McCarty. “These partners stand in the gap between the productivity of farmers, ranchers and agribusiness providing food, and the disparity of how that abundance ends up on Missourians’ dinner tables.