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Daybreak: Newsom extends farmworker housing provision

12/15/20 10:14 AM By Brad Hooker

Borgeas to chair Senate Ag * NC regulator emerges as EPA candidate * Leaders look to wrap up stimulus * Farm groups give Biden trade advice

Four questions for the next Assembly ag chair

10/21/20 7:41 AM By Brad Hooker

In the midst of a three-week ag tour, Asm. Robert Rivas spoke about new insights, his labor and housing bills and a childhood in farmworker housing.

Daybreak: CA Grown kicks off 'Happy Hour at Home' campaign

09/18/20 1:31 PM By Brad Hooker

Newsom signs three labor bills * CDFA expands virus housing * USDA issuing rules for CFAP-2 * Will CR top-up CCC?

Rivas named chair of Assembly Ag Committee

09/14/20 11:05 AM By Brad Hooker

Since taking office, Rivas has pushed through labor-sponsored bills for farmworkers, with fierce opposition from industry.

State expands virus housing for farmworkers

09/05/20 3:46 PM By Brad Hooker

Santa Barbara County has joined the administration’s new Housing for the Harvest program.

Bill on H-2A worker rights raises new arguments over housing

07/31/20 1:39 PM By Brad Hooker

A bill aimed at informing H-2A guest workers of their housing and labor rights passed another committee this week.

Survey finds pandemic is ‘amplifying’ farmworker issues

07/29/20 10:51 AM By Brad Hooker

Farmworker organizations this week released the results of a new study aimed at understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic has been impacting farmworkers.

Daybreak: State aid for Central Valley

07/28/20 11:34 AM By Brad Hooker

$100B in state stimulus * GOP goes broad on coronavirus relief * CFAP Round One payments lag

Daybreak: Newsom boosts ag housing

07/27/20 4:38 PM By Brad Hooker

Funding Friant-Kern fix * GOP pledges aid plan today * Trump trade remark draws Dem retort

Senate passes bill on H-2A worker rights

06/23/20 7:57 AM By Brad Hooker

The Senate yesterday advanced a bill requiring ag employers to notify H-2A guestworkers of their rights when it comes to labor, housing, health and safety.

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Julie Anna Potts, North American Meat Institute

This week’s Open Mic guest is Julie Anna Potts, president and CEO of the North American Meat Institute. Few segments of the food industry were forced to adapt as quickly to the COVID-19 pandemic to meet consumer demand as members of the North American Meat Institute. Now, Potts says, the meat industry is looking forward to a new normal and embracing new challenges including a court challenge to California’s Proposition 12 ballot initiative that threatens to wreak havoc on interstate commerce of meat. Potts says resolving labor issues remains a top priority for the meat industry as well as securing the safety of their existing workers from COVID-19.

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Opinion: Global school feeding programs

Marshall Matz and Julia Johnson discuss important findings of the Global Child Nutrition Foundation's new report, “School Meals Around the World”, which provides necessary insights into the power of school meals in shaping the food and education system.

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04.09.2021

Meet the Farm Hand: Autumn Price, Land O'Lakes

Autumn Price discusses her Georgia roots and explains the journey she took to come to D.C. She also reflects on the lessons she learned while working on the Senate Ag Committee, the story of how she and her husband first met, the ‘grain glitch,’ and even shares her most embarrassing moment.

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