State Approved Processors

The State Processing Program allows States and eligible recipient agencies such as school districts to contract with commercial food processors to convert bulk or raw USDA commodities into more convenient ready-to-use end products.

There are two types of Processor Agreements permitted under the Kentucky's Processing Program, which include:

The State Participation Agreement which is an agreement that Kentucky will do business with the processor under the umbrella of the National Processing Agreement maintained by USDA with specific additional provisions. Forms for this agreement may be found on this website.

The Master Processing Agreement will be used ONLY for processors who are not “multi-state” processors. That is the processor does business ONLY in the state of Kentucky.  The forms for this agreement may be obtained from the Division of Food Distribution, Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Phone: 502-573-0439.