Articles Tagged with ''covid-19''

China will fully comply with its promises to buy U.S. ag commodities and the U.K. will be held to demands that it lift barriers on American farm products, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told lawmakers Wednesday.

Uncertainty about how schools will open this fall has elevated concerns that the food items and supplies the country’s 13,698 public school districts need could be difficult to come by.

Shuttered bars, restaurants, and food courts across the country are slowly opening back up, but experts say it could take years before they’re experiencing pre-pandemic levels of business.

Georgia-based sandal company Okabashi has pledged to donate up to 10,000 pairs of soy-based sandals to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As COVID-19 has prompted a renewed interest in gardening, the USDA National Agricultural Library is highlighting historic initiatives in its digital exhibit “Small Agriculture.”

In this opinion piece, Karen Ross, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, discusses why we need to make the Farming to Support States Act happen and make it accessible to all, so that it may provide an extra measure of support for our food supply, and begin true economic recovery for communities still reeling for more than a decade.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the AFL-CIO’s petition for a temporary infectious disease standard to protect employees from COVID-19.

The American Farm Bureau Federation sent the Senate a wish list for the next coronavirus relief bill that includes a significant new round of aid to farmers as well as assistance for rural broadband and health care providers.

China, despite economic woes and its battle with COVID-19, is buying more foreign dairy this year, but the increased imports are doing far less for U.S. producers than the industry had hoped for after the “phase one” trade pact went into effect in February.

Some wineries say state guidelines should be clearer as they reopen tasting rooms to a new COVID reality that has undermined the elegance of the overall experience by forcing owners to require plastic cups, face masks, and social distancing.