As COVID-19 continues to affect the balance sheet of floral industry businesses, SAF reached out to Congressional leadership this week to highlight one more ripple effect: customer credit de... Read more
As floriculture continues to feel the devastating economic impact of COVID-19, SAF has successfully advocated to bring some relief to growers via direct USDA aid. While the USDA has yet to r... Read more
The Society of American Florists and several other floral industry organizations have rallied their members to ask Congress for additional funding in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), t... Read more
The Society of American Florists this week continued its push in Washington to ensure that industry growers receive a portion of the $9.5 billion allocated in the March 27 Coronavirus Stimul... Read more
A $2 trillion COVID stimulus package is now law—and it includes targeted relief for small businesses, and specific mention of relief for “specialty crops” in agriculture. SAF has been on the... Read more
As the economic impact of COVID-19 entered a second week, Congress went to work on formalizing a third supplemental relief package — one that has targeted relief for small businesses, and sp... Read more
SAF made the case in a letter to governors nationwide that the importance of flowers to public health during stressful times—combined with industry’s expertise in safe delivery of product to... Read more
The Society of American Florists reached out this week to Postmates and Google, asking the companies to remove the courier service’s links from florists’ local Google Listing pages and preve... Read more
Dear SAF Retailer: We’ve reached out to Postmates and Google, asking the companies to remove the courier service’s links from florists’ local Google Listing pages and preve... Read more
Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee met to revive dialogue on how to pay for the long-awaited federal infrastructure bill. The Society of American Florists is working to ensure the... Read more