The COVID-19 and Your Produce Farm webinar, recorded on April 23, provides steps that produce farm managers and individuals working with fruit and vegetable farms should consider to protect their workforce, their business, and their markets. Topics include why prevention of the coronavirus/COVID-19 is important, steps that employers should take to protect employees, how to manage cleaning and disinfection in the workplace and employee housing, state and federal sick leave and workforce reduction policies, and disaster contingency planning to manage and prevent the spread of COVID-19 on-farm. See links below to learn more:
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and Your Produce Farm webinar recording
Link to COVID-19 and Your Produce Farm pdf of webinar presentation the PDF file contains active links that users can click to access the resources online.
By Richard Stup, PhD, Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development, Elizabeth Bihn, PhD, Director of Produce Safety Alliance at Cornell, and Anu Rangarajan, PhD, Director of the Cornell Small Farms Program.
