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The International Fresh Produce Association today urged Congress to take bipartisan action to support American growers, strengthen food security, and maintain U.S. leadership in fresh produce production.

Bret Erickson, senior vice president of business affairs at J&D Produce will testify on behalf of International Fresh Produce Association at the Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on February 26. 

The Farm Bill is often thought of as a policy that solely impacts farmers, but its implications go much further, directly affecting the lives of non-farming consumers and farmworkers.

A strategy has developed regarding labor that has a chance of working: Our problems are about labor not immigration.

For long-time attendees of International Fresh Produce Association’s Washington Conference, the 2024 edition should feel new in several ways.

The U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee passed its version of the farm bill on May 23.

IFPA, the largest and most diverse international association serving the entire fresh produce supply chain, commends lawmakers for approving full funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), including a $1 billion increase for fiscal year 2024.

NGA, the trade association representing the independent supermarket industry, alongside independent community grocers nationwide, sent a letter yesterday to Congress opposing recent efforts within the FY2024 House Agriculture Appropriations bill to restrict SNAP purchases under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

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.