Dairy Margin Coverage Comes Just in Time
- A Future for Farming, What's Cooking
- May 28, 2020
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Governor Inslee Plays Politics with Safety Rules for Essential Workers0
- Farmworker Protection, Latest News, Protecting Farmworker Jobs
- May 29, 2020
Farmers are very concerned about the safety of their employees and have been following all federal and state guidance, often going beyond that with guidance from industry groups. In fact, many of the safety measures the state is calling for are already common practice on many Washington farms. However, the fact that these very detailed,
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How Potato Farmers are Responding to Covid-190
- Latest News, What's Cooking
- May 12, 2020
Why are potato growers turning dirt in fields with potato plants still in the ground? The same reason other farms are struggling: the closure of restaurants during Covid-19 creates a significantly smaller market. Most Americans probably don’t realize just how much food is consumed at restaurants. Now that restaurants are temporarily closed, foods like potatoes
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Activists Drop Farm Worker Housing Demands Before Court Hearing0
- Farmworker Protection, Latest News
- May 5, 2020
Farmers and farm workers can breathe a sigh of relief following action by a Skagit County court on May 1. The Court denied activists’ demands for an injunction forcing the state to issue rules that would have crippled farmers and farm workers. Now the focus is on Governor Inslee and the state Departments of Labor
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Activists’ actions would take housing and jobs away from farm workers0
- Farmworker Protection, Latest News
- April 29, 2020
Tell the political activists who are trying to block temporary farm workers’ access to housing and jobs in Washington state to stop putting these workers at risk!
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URGENT CALL TO ACTION! SAVE OUR FARMS, SAVE OUR HARVEST, SAVE OUR JOBS!0
- Farmworker Protection, Latest News
- April 24, 2020
New state rules would send as many as half the state’s 40,000 to 60,000 seasonal farm workers home––just when needed to harvest our crops! While saying this is to protect “essential” farm workers, it is clear that this is playing to extreme activist voices. Why, for example, are the restrictions on worker housing only applicable
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Save Family Farming calls on Inslee to allow harvests to proceed0
- A Future for Farming, Farmworker Protection, Latest News
- April 23, 2020
Save Family Farming sent Gov. Jay Inslee a letter April 23, regarding a lawsuit that is intended to harm the guest worker program and our country’s food security during a global pandemic. Here is the letter we sent: Dear Governor Inslee: Washington farmers and their employees have been declared essential workers by the federal government.
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STATE’S PROPOSED GUIDELINES WOULD SEND ABOUT 15,000 FARM WORKERS HOME AND DESTROY AT LEAST HALF OF THE STATE’S FRUIT HARVEST0
- Farmworker Protection, Latest News, Press Releases, Protecting Farmworker Jobs
- April 22, 2020
URGENT UPDATE: STATE’S PROPOSED GUIDELINES WOULD SEND ABOUT 15,000 FARM WORKERS HOME AND DESTROY AT LEAST HALF OF THE STATE’S FRUIT HARVEST Political and legal pressure applied by extremist labor activists have resulted in Washington state issuing proposed guidelines that would send half of the state’s “essential” farm workers home and destroy billions of pounds
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Farmers doing their part to protect workers0
- A Future for Farming, Farmworker Protection, Latest News
- April 17, 2020
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