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The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is making available a web seminar about farmworker vaccinations.

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.

D’Arrigo California, with the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California and Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas, hosted a drive-through vaccination clinic for Monterey County residents ages 65 and over.

The USDA is seeking comments regarding the development, coordination and implementation of grant programs related to coronavirus relief.

The USDA seeks comments on the development, coordination, and implementation of a food purchase and distribution program intended to provide additional aid to nonprofits serving Americans in need of nutrition assistance.