In New Mexico, the Regional Farm to Food Bank program (RF2FB), created under the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, provided contracts to over 200 farmers, ranchers, and other food producers to support locally sourced food. The 900,000 pounds of food they sold helped provide 749,502 healthy meals for the most vulnerable people in New Mexico. These sustainable contracts also helped small and midsize producers grow and scale up for the upcoming growing seasons. The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) termination of the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA) will not only impact New Mexico’s RF2FB program but all similar programs across the nation, which will be imperiled—or altogether abandoned—because of these funding cuts.