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Food and ag groups also seek partnership in vaccinations for essential workers. In the recently passed COVID-19 assistance package, Congress provided no less than $1.5 billion to fund purchases of food for distribution to those in need, and to provide worker protection measures, and retooling support for farmers, farmers markets and food processors, with the flexibility to spend additional funds to address COVID-19-related needs in the food supply chain. While another round of $1.5 billion has been promised for the food box program, USDA has yet to commit additional funds to protect wo...

Share this: Workers at an orchard in Yakima, Washington, pull on equipment while wearing masks and gloves to protect against the coronavirus. A recent study by UC Berkeley found that farmworkers were less likely to get the vaccine, even though they were more likely than the general public to contract Covid-19. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Food and agricultural workers are supposed to be a part of the next group of people to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, but experts worry that many workers won’t get vaccinated even if they have the opportunity. A study this summer found that about a third of f...

12th COVID death renews pressure on California poultry producer CBSNews © Rich Pedroncelli/AP Virus Outbreak Chicken Plant The death of a third worker from COVID-19 at a California food processing facility has renewed pressure on the Foster Farms company just days after a court ordered it to provide face masks to employees and follow a number of other anti-virus measures. Three workers at Foster Farms' Cherry Avenue plant in Fresno and nine at its Livingston plant in Merced County have now died of COVID-19. Local official says federal officials tried to keep Calif. plant op...

An unprecedented year, in numbers. On Saturday, June 6, people walk in Gould Park in Vidor. Several hundred people came to the park on Saturday afternoon for a protest and peace march in honor of George Floyd. Fran Ruchalski/The Beaumont Enterprise via AP An unprecedented year, in numbers. On Saturday, June 6, people walk in Gould Park in Vidor. Several hundred people came to the park on Saturday afternoon for a protest and peace march in honor of George Floyd. Fran Ruchalski/The Beaumont Enterprise via AP Megan Kimble Dec 30, 2020, 8:00 am CST More than four years ago, a team of Texas sc...

BY NAFB News Service | December 29, 2020 A new analysis of independent data for November shows that reported new COVID-19 infection rates among meat and poultry workers were more than eight times lower than the general population. Data from the Food and Environment Reporting Network says the meat and poultry sector reported an average of 5.57 new cases per 10,000 workers daily in November. Infection rates among meat and poultry workers have declined steeply in the last six months while su...