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The California Fresh Fruit Association reacted to Governor Gavin Newsom’s “$100 Billion California Comeback Plan”, which will allocate a portion of funding to support the food and agricultural industry.

The National Grocers Association applauds the decision this week by the Labor Department to drop its effort to implement burdensome and unnecessary emergency workplace COVID standards.

The Emergency Food Assistance Program — a federal nutrition program run by the USDA Food & Nutrition Service — has decided to expand TEFAP to include a presorted, prepackaged fresh produce box, the agency said.

Washington state’s leading agricultural groups say Gov. Inslee has a double standard for farmers and their vaccinated workers.

Top produce industry executives will consider what the post-COVID-19 future holds in the United Fresh Produce Association’s Reimagine Conversations track Top-to-Top Retail-Foodservice Dialogues for Success.

This year could see relatively calm waters after the great stormy ocean of 2020, when some produce companies drowned and others kept treading water while the fortunate ones soared high on a wave of retail.

In view of ever-changing disease prevention guidance, effective communication during the COVID-19 pandemic was needed more than ever before.

Last week, Christopher Ranch partnered with public health officials from Santa Clara County to bring 1,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Gilroy, the Garlic Capital of the World.

Superfresh Growers hosted the first Superfresh Vaccine Clinic on Tuesday, March 23, 2021.

One year after making its first COVID-19 relief delivery to the Houston Food Bank, MountainKing has now shipped more than 1.6 million pounds of fresh potatoes to the non-profit organization.