35,000 pounds of donated pork is headed to food-insecure South Dakota communities

Team Buche Cares has received more than 35,000 pounds of pork spare ribs from the South Dakota Farmers Union. KOTA Territory News reported from Rapid City on October 9, 2026, that the meat will be distributed across the state, including to all nine reservations. The station said more than 130,000 South Dakotans face food insecurity, including one in five children.

The gift arrived as Team Buche Cares was opening its Rooster Roundup fundraiser that evening to support hunger relief. The report does not list every pantry on the route. It does say the ribs are meant for rural and tribal communities, and that the nonprofit will move them statewide rather than keep them in one city.