The Shapiro Administration is challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s termination of a program that provides funding to Pennsylvania farms that send produce to local food banks. The governor says he directed Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding to appeal the USDA’s decision to end the Local Food Purchasing Assistance Program. The department reportedly canceled a 13-million-dollar contract meant for 189 farms and 14 food banks in the commonwealth. The appeal states there is “no articulated or reasonable basis for terminating the agreement.”