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Montana Hunters Against Hunger Wild Game Food Drive

The Montana Hunter’s Against Hunger Wild Game Food Drive will begin October 21st & run through December 21st.


Donate your deer, elk or antelope by covering the processing costs at a participating processor near you!

Here are a list of confirmed processors near you.
Please check back often as we will be updating this information through out the hunting season!
 

Bozeman

  • Yellowstone Processing
  • Happel's Clean Cut Meat Service
  • Budget Game Processing (Belgrade)

Kalispell

  • Lower Valley Processing

Butte

  • Western Meat and Sausage

Great Falls

  • Suden's House of Meats Game Processing

 

The Montana Food Bank Network gladly welcomes
food donations of any kind.

The Montana Food Bank Network can accomodate most any kind of food donation, whether it's excess vegetable or fruit harvest, unwanted game meat, or canned goods right out of your cupboard, The Network can distribute it across the state, ready to serve to those in need.

Raw produce (potatoes, carrots, apples) get shipped to our operation in Deer Lodge for canning and repackaging, after which the Network delivers it across the state for individual distribution.

Game meat also goes to the cannery, where it is processed into ready-to-cook form for those in need.

Small donations of retail food products end up in assorted food boxes for families or shelved in one of the Network's 154 affiliated food pantries.

Larger, bulk donations by manufacturers or distributors get housed in our warehouse until delivered to a food pantry where they are then served in a soup kitchen or given to individuals in their community.

To arrange for a donation, please contact James @ 406/721-3825; 800/809-4752 or on-line at: jdodge@montanafoodbanknetwork.org

Food Donations Bring Financial Benefits
The primary benefit from donating food will always be the satisfaction that comes from seeing things used instead of wasted, but there are direct and indirect financial benefits as well.
  Save storage costs.  Reduced storage cost can be substantial.  
  Save dumping fees. Dumping is expensive.  
  Get a tax credit.  A state tax credit is available to growers.  (Is this right?)  
  We give tax receipts  to all donors.  
 
Good Samaritan Law Protects Donors

The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan law (off site link), a federal statute, offers protection to anyone who donates food in good faith to a food bank or gleaning organization, should anyone who eats the food become ill.

 
 
To Learn More about Farmer or Rancher Donations Click Here!
To Learn More about Poached or Excess Game Donations Click Here!

To Learn More about Industry Donations Click Here!

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Did You Know?
Many people don't understand that the Montana Food Bank Network can accept everything from a pound of beans to 30,000 pounds of potatoes. The network has a cannery at the Montana State Prison.

“If a rancher has a cow that breaks a leg, they can donate it and get the same tax benefit that a Safeway store would,” Peggy Grimes said.

Missoulian 11-27-05

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