On Tuesday, March 23, Representative Josh Harder (CA-10) joined county leaders at the San Joaquin County Ag Center to tour their vaccination site for food and agricultural workers and discuss needs in the agricultural community. After the tour, Rep. Harder spoke about the importance of ensuring access to vaccines for the area’s frontline farmers, ranchers, food and ag workers, and presented the County and the San Joaquin Farm Bureau with certificates of recognition for their critically important work supporting outreach to the agricultural community. He also detailed some of the new resources coming to the Valley as part of the American Rescue Plan.

Rep. Harder was joined by Bruce Blodgett, San Joaquin Farm Bureau Executive Director; Dr. Maggie Park, San Joaquin County Public Health Officer; Tim Pelican, San Joaquin County Ag Commissioner; Shellie Lima, San Joaquin County Director of Emergency Operations; and Christopher Miller, San Joaquin County Senior Emergency Planner.