Every four years we go through a seemingly never-ending presidential campaign. With COVID ravaging the country, this was no doubt the strangest presidential campaign in a long time. Obviously, the headline is that Donald Trump lost reelection and Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States with Kamala Harris becoming the first ...
The onset of the COVID crisis has thrown our country for a loop and our industry along with it, but Western Growers farmers are rising to meet the challenge and here in Washington, DC, we are working to help you. In March we engaged the Trump Administration and dozens of Congressional offices to ensure that ...
As we start the new Biden Administration, water policy and water infrastructure hold a prominent position. President Biden has indicated that he is concerned about job growth because of COVID’s impact. With so many Americans out of work or underemployed he wants to jump start the economy and believes an infrastructure bill can help do ...
What an upside-down time we are living in with the pandemic overturning all of our normal lives. Our industry has been battered with this virus but we continue to grow food for our nation—all thanks to your hard work. In Washington, Western Growers has been trying to do everything we can to support you. We ...
Last year around this time, I wrote about the COVID-19 crisis. Now, a year later, I write about it again. However, rather than talk about a crisis upon us, I now write about a crisis that is hopefully abating. Over the last year, our federal government has poured tremendous resources into combating the COVID-19 pandemic ...
By Dennis Nuxoll, Vice President, Federal Government Affairs and Tracey Chow, Government Affairs Specialist Climate change and sustainability are concepts that have been around for a long time. Many buyers have been launching various sustainability campaigns that Western Growers members have had to adhere to, and several state and local governments have also been focused ...
By Dennis Nuxoll, Vice President, Federal Government Affairs Last year, Western Growers began working to create a coalition across the Western United States to insist that any infrastructure package that Congress passed must include significant resources for water infrastructure in the West. In early August, the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill that contains ...
By Dennis Nuxoll, Vice President, Federal Government Affairs As I type this column, it is the wet season across much of the West. Snow is falling or rain is being dumped on the landscape. At this time of year, for the unknowing, water concerns seem far away but farmers in the West know better. They ...
By Dennis Nuxoll, Gail Delihant and Robert Medler Farmers throughout the West know it is dry this year and water supplies are sparse. Scientists who study such things tell us that the West is suffering through its most severe drought in more than 1,000 years. The Colorado River Basin, with its two historic dams, is ...
USDA has announced the details of its Market Facilitation Program (MFP), which provides direct payments to producers impacted by export market losses caused by foreign retaliatory tariffs. To apply, download the application on the USDA MFP website here. Sign-up for the program begins Monday, July 29th, and ends December 6th, 2019. Almonds, fresh grapes, fresh sweet cherries,…