Social responsibility, including fair and just treatment of employees, is important no matter where in the world a company is doing business - A message from the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas The Fresh Produce Association of America (FPAA) supports the strong enforcement tools used by U.S. Customs and Border protection to both safeguard our [...]
The FPAA signed onto a support letter along with 170 organizations as part of the Ag. Coalition supporting swift confirmation of Elaine Trevino as the next Chief Agriculture Negotiator at the Office of the U.S. View Letter Now: Trevino Letter of Support_211015
The FPAA signed onto a letter addressed to the U.S. Department of Transportation as part of the Agricultural Transportation Working Group (ATWG.) The letter includes comments that will be used by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) to prepare a report for President Biden on supply chains for the industrial base View Letter Now: Agricultural Transportation Working [...]
Sen. Marco Rubio may be looking after his fruit and vegetable grower constituents, but once again he is short on facts. Sen. Marco Rubio and some members of the Florida Congressional delegation continue to parrot the same inflammatory rhetoric as their constituents, but they should take a good look in the mirror if they are blaming [...]
FPAA President, Lance Jungmeyer, commented to The Packer about the University of Florida study that makes misleading claims about tomato imports from Mexico. Below you will find the FPAA’s full written response: The assertions made about Mexican tomatoes in a study by Dr. Zhengfei Guan have been taken out of context, resulting in conclusions that are misleading and [...]
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Last week, the U.S. Department Commerce authorized new approved types of containers and box weights for tomatoes that modify the previous Tomato Box Weight Chart. Please see the attached New box weight chart with these changes. The updated chart includes a new presentation for TOV round tomato in Clamshell 6X2.4 Lb. (NT-RR-018), and modifies 2 of [...]
AgPlus Report Aug.16-20.21