coronavirus vaccination

Oil prices have moved lower over the past week, but you wouldn’t know it if you looked at fuel prices across the Northwest. Patrick DeHaan with GasBuddy said the prices we’re paying at the pump continued to move higher this week, even though the national average moved lower. The reaso ...

Last week, Congress approved the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, in an effort to help the American economy move past the pandemic. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was excited when President Biden signed the Plan into law. He recently pointed out that the farming community will benefit in a variety of ways ...

With spring just around the corner, the State and Health Districts across Washington are formulating plans to vaccinate farmworkers. Chelan-Douglas Health District Administrator Luke Davies said there’s an estimated 50,000 people that will need to get vaccinated. “ ...

Despite being hard hit by COVID-19 infections throughout this pandemic, food and farm workers continue to find it challenging to get the coronavirus vaccination. Professor Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, a food justice expert at Syracuse University, acknowledges there are many populations interested in the vaccine, including the elderly, teachers and other essential workers ...

For many in the Oregon agriculture community, 2020 was a very challenging year, and the impacts are still being felt. Alexis Taylor, director of the Oregon Department of Agriculture said the coronavirus pandemic had a huge impact on everything from day-to-day operations to international trade and everything in between ...

COVID vaccine distribution, rural broadband, climate change, and racial equity were among the top issues House Ag leaders laid before USDA’s 97th Ag Outlook Forum last week. From his roots growing up on his grandfather’s farm, House Ag Chair David Scott described the plight of America’s black farmers through generations of discrimination and earlier slavery and are make up less than two percent o

U.S. Forest Service Incident Management Teams have a wealth of experience in response to natural disasters. And as the Forest Service's Gordy Sachs points out, that experience has come in to play as a part of the national COVID vaccine campaign in staffing vaccination centers across the country ...

Researchers and lawmakers are putting new resources into another line of attack against COVID-19; animals. The animal-human COVID-connection has long been known, as it has for other diseases. “Of course, we’re all excited about the fact that we’re getting the shots in the arms for humans," said South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson. "But there are ...

In an effort to encourage frontline workers to get the coronavirus vaccine, Tyson Foods announced Wednesday it will compensate workers for up to four hours of regular pay if they are vaccinated outside of their normal shirt via an external source ...

Lawmakers seek clarified terms to ensure more farmers and ranchers are eligible for loans through the Paycheck Protection Program. The request, via a letter to the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration, was led by Representative Ron Kind and Senator Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin Democrats, along with Republican Senator John Thune of South Dakota ...