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Produce industry groups are asking the Agriculture Department for up to $5 billion in payments to compensate growers and dealers for losses they suffered when restaurants, schools and colleges suddenly closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Restaurant industry asks for delay in minimum wage hike * Efforts to update California’s food safety guidelines go online * Reclamation doubles water allocation for Friant

The National Milk Producers Federation and International Dairy Foods Association are jointly asking USDA to rescue the industry from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic by paying farms to cut production and providing forgivable loans to processors to keep buying milk.

Health officials advise wearing bandanas or Chinese N-95 knockoffs * San Jose legislator calls for more farmworker protections

The nation's largest milk processor, Dean Foods, won approval from a bankruptcy court to sell a substantial portion of its assets.

The American Farm Bureau Federation delivers the Trump administration a detailed list of requests to swiftly use its authority under the $2 trillion economic stimulus package to rescue “all sectors of agriculture” from the twin blows of plunging commodity prices and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conservation groups urge Newsom not to delay new regulations * DWR: No ‘appreciable change’ on water deliveries from new plan * COVID-19 aid uncertain for ag

Banks and Farm Credit System institutions on Friday began taking applications from farmers and other small businesses for $349 billion in forgivable loans aimed at shoring up the economy during the COVID-19 crisis.

Other advice for keeping farmworkers safe and healthy during coronavirus * USDA getting advice on how to spend $9.5 billion * USDA tightening disease surveillance

Newsom’s plan to counter Trump’s biological opinions just got a permit * Surge in fresh produce demand * State rejects Fresno fairgrounds for field hospital