Drive to Feed Kids
From Farm to Backpack
Drive to Feed Kids launched in 2017 to build collaborative partnerships among non-profit organizations, farmers and agricultural businesses committed to addressing food insecurity across the state. Missouri Farmers Care leverages existing food bank distribution networks and provides resources for kid-friendly meals to youth through backpack meal programs and in-school food pantries. Additionally, Drive to Feed Kids allows the agriculture community an opportunity to share their utilization of science and technology to responsibly produce food for our communities and world.
The Movement
Drive to Feed Kids has become an inspiring movement. Local youth and agriculture groups come together to host meal packing events and serve their neighbors. Hogs For Hunger was launched in 2020. Through this specialized initiative, Missouri Farmers Care, the Missouri Pork Association and partners unite to deliver high-quality protein to families in need. So far, Hogs For Hunger has provided 2,720,128 servings of pork for children and families facing hunger.
The Challenge
Nearly 13 million kids in the U.S. are food insecure. That number includes hundreds of thousands of Missouri kids here in the nation’s agricultural heartland. In rural Missouri, as many as one in six people face food insecurity. Among children, the numbers are even higher. In parts of Missouri, one in three children face food insecurity on a regular basis.
The Solution
The Drive to Feed Kids builds collaborative partnerships among non-profit organizations and agriculture businesses who are committed to standing in the gap of food insecurity. In an effort to combat childhood food insecurity, Missouri Farmers Care utilizes existing food bank distribution networks to deliver kid-friendly meals to youth through backpack programs and in-school food pantries.
Our Impact
Meals raised in 2025
Million meals raised since 2017
Hogs donated in 2025
in grants awarded in 2025
What Everyone’s Saying
“The Drive represents everything ADM stands for. It’s a full circle moment when we can combine our support of rural communities by giving back and volunteering alongside our youth in agriculture,” says Sarah Shepherd of ADM. “We are thrilled to highlight ADM’s strength and ability to connect the farmer to the plate. This event has become a tradition.”
“Brownfield Ag News has passionately supported the Drive from the very beginning because it’s simply the right thing to do,” shares Cyndi Young, Director of Brownfield Ag News. “This isn’t about recognition—it’s about standing up for a cause that truly matters. The applause doesn’t matter. The impact does.”
