WGIS Offers Trainings During "Let’s Grow Roadshow"

Western Growers Insurance Services and Western Growers are on the road, traveling around both California and Arizona for the WGIS “Let’s Grow Roadshow." The team will provide training on topics including human resources, insurance services, food safety, financial services and more. During the training, farming, food and agricultural professionals have the opportunity to explore some of the industry’s most pressing issues and receive tangible takeaways that they can immediately implement at their respective companies.

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Chardae Heim

USDA Issues Second Tranche of Market Facilitation Program

USDA announced today the second allocation of 2019 Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payments to farmers who have been impacted by the trade wars. The payments will begin the week before Thanksgiving. Producers of MFP-eligible commodities will now be eligible to receive 25% of the total payment expected, in addition to the 50% they have already received from the 2019 MFP. If conditions warrant, the third allotment will be made in January 2020.

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Cory Lunde

Upcoming Lunch & Learn Webinar Covers Root Cause Analysis and Produce Safety

It is imperative for the produce industry to identify and understand the cause or causes of food safety system failures during growing, harvesting and post-harvest operations. Root Cause Analysis is a method of evaluating failures and involves a systematic process to determine how and why a failure occurred. This approach is commonly applied to process improvement and it is vital to a produce safety system. This webinar will cover key concepts and tools available to conduct a root cause analysis. In addition, our featured speaker will share a case study to illustrate this process.

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Sonia Salas

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