Calif. food processors, farms fined for COVID violations

09/09/20 8:18 AM By Steve Davies

California’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed to fine two meat companies about $60,000 for failing to adequately protect workers from COVID-19.

Tom Gallagher, DMI

This week’s Open Mic guest is Tom Gallagher, CEO of Dairy Management Incorporated. Few commodity groups in the nation have seen greater challenges than dairy farmers over the past several years. The COVID pandemic, higher feed costs, consolidation in the processing industry and drought are just a few of the challenges producers have endured. Yet, prices have stabilized and consumers continue to seek dairy products. Tom Gallagher says the industry is adapting to marketing concepts that reach younger consumers and sharing the dairy message of sustainability to an information thirsty consumer.

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Opinion: America is missing an opportunity to lead in seafood production, leaving jobs on the table

In this opinion piece, Sean J. O’Scannlain with Fortune Fish & Gourmet discusses the need for federal legislation to clarify perimeters to establish an American aquaculture industry that would create jobs in many communities.

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Washington Week in Review: June 17, 2021: Processing capacity, immigration, and trade

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack was on Capitol Hill this week discussing a wide array of USDA priorities, including the expansion of processing capacity in the meat sector. Agri-Pulse's Phil Brasher and Spencer Chase have more on that and a look at where things stand on ag workforce legislation in the Senate in this week's video.

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