Articles Tagged with ''western growers''

LGMA Partners with Western Growers to Offer Remote Food Safety Audits During Pandemic

Willette Crawford was appointed to California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement and Hank Giclas retires from Western Growers

Republicans including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy are insisting on a “shield” to protect businesses from civil lawsuits in the next COVID-19 relief bill, but Democrats are pushing back hard.

Almost overnight specialty crop producers changed the way they operated by staggering work times, increasing shuttle transports, and providing educational training to keep employees safe during the COVID-19 outbreak.

$2.7B for fruits and veg * Newsom puts $20M to food bank buys * Truckers get more food access at rest stops * Launching economic task force, Newsom skips production ag

Western Growers (WG) has developed a website to facilitate changes to the Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA)-approved Leafy Green Food Safety Guidelines.

State Department accelerates H-2A approvals * State auditor: CDFA ‘poorly managed’ license plate program

SGMA showing impacts on agricultural land values * Concerns rise over smallholder farmers during outbreak * Western Growers asks USDA to back claims on perishable commodities

Farmworker wages under the H-2A program will rise 6% nationally in 2020 to an average of $13.99 an hour, with farmers in some states seeing increases of up to 10%, the Labor Department says.