Coronavirus Spreading Among U.S. Fruit, Vegetable Packers Raising Concern June 11, 2020 By Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke and Christopher Walljasper, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting From apple packing houses in Washington state to farm workers in Florida and a California county known as “the world’s...
Farm Workers Getting Sick, Spreading Coronavirus As Peak Produce Season Begins May 29, 2020 By Mike Dorning and Jen Skerritt All of the roughly 200 employees on a produce farm in Tennessee tested positive for Covid-19 this month. In New...
A Coronavirus Outbreak Among Farm Workers Would Be Catastrophic: Viewpoint April 3, 2020 By Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg View There is no evidence that Covid-19 has been transmitted by food or food packaging, according to U.S. federal health agencies....