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Keeping the focus on taking care of workers, customers and suppliers is a key to surviving the COVID-19 crisis, according to Steve Barnard.

A proposed rule will revise U.S. Department of Agriculture organic regulations to strengthen oversight and enforcement of the production, handling, and sale of organic agricultural products, according to the agency.

(UPDATED) Apples and potatoes are among the crops now eligible for direct payments to growers for sales losses in the $2.1 billion in Coronavirus Food Assistance Program funds for specialty crops.

Apples and potatoes are among the crops now eligible for direct payments to growers for sales losses in the $2.1 billion in Coronavirus Food Assistance Program funds for specialty crops.

School foodservice has been re-imagined after the COVID-19 crisis sent kids home for distance learning.

Churches, corporations, restaurants, schools, and practically every American institution have been challenged by the coronavirus.

What do you think is the hardest part about keeping COVID-19 under control among farmworkers and packing-house workers?

As anticipated, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is releasing a third round of contracts for the Farmers to Families Food Box Program, to spend the full $3 billion approved for the program.

There are voices of concern about the third round of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program.

The Idaho Grower Shipper Association has cancelled its 92nd annual convention due to the COVID-19 pandemic.