Fresh Produce Industry Associations Petition USDA For A National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement

Today a proponent group of agricultural associations representing the leafy greens industry across the U.S. sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) formally requesting the agency begin the process necessary to establish a national marketing agreement for leafy greens (NLGMA). A NLGMA would implement best practices and a corresponding verification program that could reduce the potential for microbial contamination in these crops.

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Wendy Fink-Weber

Western Growers Demands Action To Prevent Further Water Cutbacks From New Federal Biological Ruling

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency today released its final biological opinion on salmon and steelhead in the Delta and the river systems that feed it, placing significant blame for declines of these species on the state and federal water supply pumps in the south Delta and ordering an average cutback of 330,000 acre feet of supplied water per year. These reductions come on top of previously ordered reductions in water supply as required by the federal biological opinion on Delta smelt.

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Wendy Fink-Weber

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