Hormel Foods donated five truckloads of SPAM products totaling over 264,000 cans to the affected areas, and Tyson is donating over 100,000 lbs of protein, which can feed 404,000 people.
Following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ian, Smithfield Foods Inc. announced that it would send more than 37,000 lbs. of food, or the equivalent of 150,000 servings, to Fort Myers, Fla., through its Helping Hungry Homes program.
The International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) has selected José Andrés to be the keynote speaker at the Global Produce & Floral Show in Orlando Oct. 27-29.
Through funding from the Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has implemented the Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) and the Emergency Relief Program (ERP), both of which have already begun to benefit producers.
