What’s New with USDA Foods? School Nutrition Association

Annual National Conference Salt Lake City, Utah Monday, July 13, 2015

Speakers

Julie Skolmowski, MPH, RD, SNS Chief, Nutrition Services and Access Branch Food Distribution Division, USDA Food and Nutrition Service David Tuckwiller Director, Commodity Procurement WBSCM Director UDSA Agricultural Marketing Service Peggy Cantfil Chief, Child Nutrition Operations Branch Food Distribution Division USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Today’s session topics

Nutrition Services and Access Branch New products Specification changes Information & communication UDSA Agricultural Marketing Service Agriculture outlook Business process review Child Nutrition Operations Branch Agriculture impact on USDA food ordering Entitlement utilization strategies

USDA Foods Available List

USDA Foods Information Sheets

http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/nslp-usda-foods-fact-sheets

• White Whole Wheat/Enriched Flour Blend • Penne Pasta • Whole Grain-Rich Blend Pastas • Sweet Potato Chunks, Frozen • Diced Carrots, Frozen • High Protein Yogurt • Unseasoned Chicken Strips • Turkey Deli, Sliced • Fuji Apples • Peanuts, Bulk for Processing

USDA Foods: What’s New

No Salt Added, 62%

Low-sodium, 13%

Lower sodium formulation,

16%

Industry standard, 8%

USDA Foods: NSLP Sodium Summary

USDA Foods: SY15-16 Changes Sodium Upper Limits Added Per 1 Meat/Meat Alternate Equivalent: • Diced Chicken: 28 mg • Unseasoned Chicken Strips: 88 mg • Precooked Beef Patties: 105 mg • Beef Crumbles: 109 mg • Pork Crumbles: 184 mg • Turkey Deli & Turkey Ham Products: 285 mg • Chicken Fajita: 303 mg

USDA Foods: SY15-16 Changes Allergen Statements Introduced: • Chicken Fajita Strips—no gluten or soy • Unseasoned Chicken Strips—no gluten or soy • Turkey Deli, Ham, and Roast—no gluten or soy • Turkey Taco Filling—no gluten

All 100% beef products contain only beef and no other ingredients

- Quarterly Calls with SDAs - Monthly Ordering Updates - New USDA Foods E-Letter Sign up via GovDelivery on the FNS website: http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd

-Webinars www.youtube.com/user/USDAfoodandnutrition

USDA Foods Communication

USDA Foods: We’re Listening! •Do you have concerns, ideas, suggestions, or success stories to share about USDA Foods products? •Let us know: USDAFoods@fns.usda.gov

Photos Courtesy of Santa Gertrudis ISD, Kingsville, TX

Commercial Vendor USDA Foods

Market Outlook

Fruits and Vegetables • California Drought • Almonds versus Tree Fruit

• Labor • Supply

• Canker and Greening in Florida Oranges • Oversupply of Some Products • Vegetables Expected to be Available

Market Outlook

Red Meat and Poultry • Beef Rebuilding Herd – Drought Dependent • Avian Influenza

• Turkey • Eggs

• No Issues Expected for Pork • Broilers – Weak (particularly leg quarters)

What’s constant with USDA Foods and What must change?

A

National School Lunch Act 1946 Preamble

“as a matter of national security, and to safeguard the health and well being of the nations children, and to expand the market with nutritious agricultural commodities, the school lunch program is established…”

"In the long view, no nation is any healthier than its children, or more prosperous than its farmers.”

President Truman signing the National School Lunch Act of 1946

SY15-16 Ordering & Procurement Strategies

Fruit and Vegetable Products Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Long term contract Poultry Turkey: roast, deli, ham & bulk Eggs: carton vs bulk

SY15-16 Ordering Strategies

Direct entitlement dollars to products USDA can purchase NOW! Beef & PORK & PORK Cheese, peanut butter, legumes Chicken: large birds, small birds, oven, cut up Strips, diced and fajitas Other FV, grain, dairy, oil DOD Fresh

SY15-16 Ordering to a processor Product for further processing Work with your State and Manufacturer that won the bid this year! Order what can be consumed THIS year Less than 6 month inventory @ any time

Processor Inventory Facts Inventory belongs to USDA State dollars bought it USDA holds title and the bond Use it or loss it State Sweeps … National Sweeps…

SY15-16 Entitlement Status 91 % NATIONALLY Usually @ 96 - 98% in July Where are you with your district’s Planned Assistance Level now? (SY 15 meals X est. rate .3125)

Entitlement Facts Entitlement belongs to the State State is required to offer or to make PAL available Carry over due to failure to order is unacceptable Unacceptable to the children, the schools and farmers & producers Use it or lose it

Further discussion opportunities Monday 3:30 Processor Inventory Management Tuesday 8:30 Max USDA foods in ALL Child Nutrition Programs Tuesday 2:15 Getting the Biggest Band for your USDA Food Buck

What must change?....

USDA Foods Process Improvement

• What value/benefit do the USDA Foods programs provide? o Direct delivery (brown box) o Processing Program o DOD Fresh Program

• How do USDA Foods supplement the rest of your

business activities?

USDA Foods Process Improvement

• What are the challenges getting and utilizing USDA Foods?

• How could the USDA Foods process be changed to provide you more value? o Ordering o Delivery o Processing Program o Recall Management o Complaint Management

Questions?