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With a 90-10 vote, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment that calls for a direct restaurant relief fund, now part of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.

At the most basic level, we are all ready to travel and attend in-person industry events.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working with federal partners to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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.