allows them to pay a premium of up to 10 percent above the lowest bid in order to purchase locally grown goods.
Establishment of local food procurement goals for state agencies to purchase 20 percent of their food locally by 2020. State-funded institutions such as schools would have a goal of 10 percent by 2020.
Click on the following for more of the story: The Belvidere Daily Republican. - New law to put more locally grown food on Illinois tables
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