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With a high percentage of farmworkers vaccinated, Washington state agricultural groups are waiting on the state to update its costly COVID-19-related housing regulations.

Richard “RJ” Durante chatted on his cell phone while riding in the cab of the Nardella Produce truck from the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market to deliver to Pie Lady Café in Moorestown, N.J.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has revised its National Emphasis Program (NEP) for COVID-19.

Foodlink has purchased 3.6 million pounds of surplus food from New York farmers since the beginning of the Nourish New York program.

Washington state’s leading agricultural groups are appealing to Gov. Inslee to repeal recently renewed Covid-19 emergency rules for farm workers using temporary housing.

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.

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.