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Earlier today, United Fresh’s President & CEO Tom Stenzel met with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Michael Crapo (R-ID) to kick off bipartisan negotiations on a Senate Agriculture Immigration reform legislative effort. Secretary Vilsack and the two Senators were joined by other agriculture stakeholders and farmworker organizations to build on […]

Yesterday, USDA Secretary Vilsack announced $4 Billion to Ag Producers and Businesses in Round II of the Pandemic Assistance for Producers Initiative. As part of the $4 billion, $700 million will be targeted for Pandemic Response and Safety Grants for PPE and other protective measures to help specialty crop growers, meat packers and processors, and […]

“United Fresh Produce Association and our members appreciate USDA’s continued efforts to ensure the most vulnerable among us have adequate access to food. We also share the Secretary’s commitment to address nutrition insecurity and, accordingly, are concerned that this proposal falls short of providing sufficient access to fresh produce to meet that goal. Over the […]