National and state agricultural leaders joined Republican Members of Congress – including U.S. Representatives Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Jim Baird (R-IN), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and Mike Simpson (R-ID) – to call on Congress to pass bipartisan workforce solutions to address the farm labor shortage in order to combat inflation. …
he International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) has officially launched The Global Produce & Floral Show. The show will be held October 27-29 in Orlando, Florida. Registrations and hotel reservations are open, and there are still opportunities to join the show floor. …
With the recent Administration announcement of a series of regional listening sessions to inform creation of the U.S. nutrition security blueprint to be unveiled at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in September, the International Fresh Produce Association enlisted a broad cross-section of its membership. to participate in the listening sessions and ensure the fresh fruit and vegetable community is represented and heard. …
International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) has responded to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announced “Food System Transformation Framework” highlighting the aspects most likely to impact fresh produce and floral. …
The global fresh produce industries unite in a call to national and regional public authorities and multilateral bodies, such as WTO, FAO, UNCTAD, OECD and others, to respond with urgency to the current significant hikes of costs for logistics, inputs such as fertilizers, packaging materials and energy, and an overall shortage of labour which is jeopardizing the economic viability of the fresh produce industry globally. …
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