Articles Tagged with ''covid-19''

Participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are now getting emergency benefit increases totaling $2 billion a month nationwide that Congress authorized to address the unemployment surge and economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 crisis. 

Water and agricultural organizations from across the West pleaded for investments in water infrastructure in the economic stimulus package.

USDA’s $19 billion COVID-19 aid package for farmers may fall well short of compensating producers for the estimated damage of the pandemic, and the department has an ambitious and novel plan to distribute USDA-purchased commodities to needy people. 

Expectations for U.S. beef exports to China this year are being tempered by the COVID-19 pandemic, but shipments have already begun and they’re expected to continue strong despite the spread of the virus.

As Americans were first being told to practice social distancing and shelter-in-place last month, many farmers were trying to figure out how to reach consumers who used to come to their farms.

President Trump adds Roger Beachy to the National Science Board and John Deere tapped Jon Ebert to serve as the North American public relations manager for the U.S. and Canada.

Newsom has assembled a list of dozens of industry and labor leaders for his new Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery.

The Senate OKs a bipartisan agreement to infuse the highly popular Paycheck Protection Program with an additional $320 billion while also making farms eligible for a separate disaster loan program for small businesses. 

Senate Democrats are demanding answers from the Trump administration on what it is doing to control COVID-19 outbreaks that are shutting down meatpacking plants and threatening other parts of the food supply chain.

More water would bolster valley economy, argues Bakersfield lawmaker * Democrats demand plan on worker protections * Food banks face flood of new clients