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IFPA has announced support for the Supporting Farm Operations Act (HR 7046), an immediate and meaningful measure to address wage relief.

A letter sent to Congress on January 11 urging a freeze on increases in the adverse effect wage rate (AEWR) reflects increased frustration among American growers with federal guestworker requirements.

Congressman Bill Huizenga (R-MI) was joined by 74 of his colleagues on a bipartisan letter to House and Senate appropriations leaders requesting an H-2A visa guestworker wage freeze in an upcoming spending package.

The latest salvo in the war over the proposed merger between retail giants Kroger and Albertson has been fired by four U.S. senators and two U.S. Representatives, who in a December 11 letter urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to reject the merger.

The political outlook for 2024 and beyond was the subject of a Virtual Town Hall sponsored by the International Fresh Produce Association on November 29.

The fresh fruit and vegetable industry contends that these WIC cuts would be bad not only for American public health but for the industry itself.

The British weekly The Economist is one of the world’s most influential news magazines. Despite its manifest oddities, it is also one of the best.

People in the industry may find something familiar in the Fresh Produce Procurement Act introduced in Congress last week. That’s because there is something familiar.

International Fresh Produce Association is applauding Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Reps. David Valadao (R-CA) and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) for introducing the Fresh Produce Procurement Reform Act.

While it’s not an election year, there is plenty for the produce industry to influence in the nation’s capital.