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With nearly one in six restaurants closed, the National Restaurant Association is lobbying Congress for more relief from the devastation to foodservice demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The CCOF Foundation is helping organic farmers affected by California wildfires.

For produce operators, the cost of doing business took on a whole new context after the COVID-19 pandemic began.

UPDATED: The USDA is allocating another $500 million for the Farmers to Family Food Box Program, which has already distributed more than 110 million boxes of produce, meat and dairy products.

Tony Alameda, co-owner of Top Flavor Farms, is the new chairman of the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California.

Brewster, Wash.-based Gebbers Farms says state COVID-19 testing at the apple, cherry and pear-growing operation indicates the firm’s preventive measures have been effective at protecting workers.

The National Watermelon Promotion Board, Winter Springs, Fla., has replaced a planned event in New York City with three virtual events promoting watermelon to food media and influencers.

The Canadian Produce Marketing Association and the Canadian Horticultural Council are proceeding with the 2020 Fall Harvest event online.

We are all looking ahead, sometimes finding it more fruitful to think about the road ahead than the path we are on.

The International Banana Convention 2020 will be an online event for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.