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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Spiro Stefanou has been selected to serve as the new administrator of USDA’s Economic Research Service and Paul Schlegel announced his retirement from the American Farm Bureau Federation.
The Legislature may send a measure to the governor this week that would make it easier for employees to file for workers’ compensation to cover COVID-19 infections.
Cheríe Watte Angulo has been tapped to serve as the new executive director of the Buy California Marketing Agreement and Emanuel Lazopoulos has joined Dole Food Co. as the new senior vice president of sales and marketing for Dole Fresh Vegetables.
The industry fears the added costs could cripple small businesses and that the regulation would ignore longstanding commitments by businesses and local governments to achieve sustainability goals – a hallmark of the California wine industry.
United Farm Workers, a co-sponsor of the bill, labeled CDFA Secretary Karen Ross as “dangerous” for negotiating an exemption on the granular form under the ban.
Farmworker organizations this week released the results of a new study aimed at understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic has been impacting farmworkers.
As COVID-19 infection rates continue to rise in California, labor unions and social justice groups are expressing more concerns about the health and safety of farmworkers.
