Category: Top Industry Issues

NPC, state potato organizations, and other fresh produce associations sent a letter to USDA on April 6 requesting $5 billion in payments to compensate growers and Perishable Agriculture Commodities...

The National Potato Council joined 30 agriculture organizations and businesses calling on the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to include agricultural businesses in the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program,...

This week, NPC joined 30 agriculture organizations and businesses calling on the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to include agricultural businesses in the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, as...

Japan will again lower tariffs on imports of U.S. products on April 1, 2020. The tariff on U.S. frozen fries will shrink to 2.1%, and the tariff on U.S....

Today the House passed by voice vote S. 3548, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, a $2 trillion bill with significant benefits to the U.S. potato...

NPC welcomes the CARES Act, which lays the groundwork to improve the odds of a sustainable growing season in the coming weeks and months.

NPC and the U.S. agriculture community applauded the modifications and the expansion of interview waiver eligibility to ensure that the majority of H-2 processing can continue.

As a member of the Agriculture Workforce Coalition’s (AWC) steering committee, NPC signed on to a letter sent on March 18 to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging the...

EPA announced a new method for evaluating pesticides under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to assure pesticide registration review actions under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)...