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Agriculture during COVID-19

Food Safety & Agriculture Guidelines

To keep the agriculture industry informed on the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation, we have listed some links below to help connect you with industry-relevant resources about food safety, animals, mental health, and more.


Business Safety Plans Required For All Farms

Cornell Cooperative Extension Webinar Series 
on developing safety plans for compliance and to reduce liability risk

New York State requires businesses to have a specific business safety plan in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes all farms, both food and non-food producing. In addition, a well-written and executed business safety plan will help reduce business liability risk during and after the pandemic. A Cornell Task Force recently developed materials to directly support farms in the plan writing process.

Cornell Cooperative Extension and Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development are offering a “NY Forward Business Safety Plan Support” webinar series with specialized webinars for Dairy/Livestock/Crop Farms, Fruit/Vegetable Farms, Retail Farms, Equine Farms and Greenhouse/Landscaping/Ornamental Farms.

The webinars, led by Extension specialists, will:

  • Walk farmers through the need for and process to complete a safety plan as is required by all businesses for compliance with NY Forward
  • Demonstrate project tools developed by Extension to write and complete a plan
  • Share curated resources for specific industries

WEBINAR DATES

NY Forward Business Safety Plan Support for (Dairy/Livestock/Crop) Farms :

7:30 – 8:30 PM | June 10

NY Forward Business Safety Plan Support for (Fruit/Vegetable) Farms :

12:00 – 1:00 PM | June 11

NY Forward Business Safety Plan Support for (Retail) Farms :

7:00 – 8:00 PM | June 11

NY Forward Business Safety Plan Support for (Greenhouse/Landscaping/Ornamental) Farms : 7:00 – 8:00 PM | June 15

NY Forward Business Safety Plan Support for (Equine) Farms :

7:00 – 9:00 PM | June 17

The webinars are free and pre-registration is required. Recording links will be posted on the Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development NY Forward Business Safety Plans page.

Last updated June 18, 2020