The grants — also available in Nebraska and Rhode Island — aim to bolster the processing, aggregation and distribution of agricultural products in the states.
The Pennsylvania mushroom industry won a grant from Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration to study how to better use the spent compost from growing mushrooms.
The Natividad Medical Foundation received more than $260,000 donation for hospital services and medical equipment from The Agricultural Leadership Council.
Bee Sweet Citrus owners Jim and Michelle Marderosian have pledged $1.5 million to help fund a new plant pathology lab at the J.G. Boswell Agricultural Technology Center at Cal Poly's College of Agriculture, Food a
Watsonville, Calif.-based California Giant Berry Farms is providing funding to help literacy efforts for Hispanic families in Salinas and south Monterey County.
Dole Food Co. and Homeland Stores, an Oklahoma-based grocery retailer, partnered together to increase healthy food options in schools by donating salad bars to two Oklahoma City public schools.
Lakeside Organic Gardens is the Centennial Sponsor for the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau, donating $50,000 to the non-profit organization to mark its 100th anniversary.
D'Arrigo Brothers of New York donated $15,000 to Paws of War to provide three trained service dogs to combat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
The California Table Grape Commission awarded $42,000 worth of grants to schools in California's San Joaquin and Coachella valleys through the Innovation in Teaching Education Grant Program.
JOH's charity Kids 360 participated in the 37th annual Pan-Mass Challenge, raising more than $30,000 for Pan-Mass Challenge's donation to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Taylor Farms and Golden State Foods have provided backpacks filled with school supplies to every registered first grader at four elementary schools in Salinas, Calif.
Mann Packing Co. will fund a $10,000 scholarship for each of the next five years at the College of Business at California State University Monterey Bay.
Western Growers is marking its first decade of its transportation program and celebrating the anniversary by helping feed America's hungry through a "Giving Day."