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Here’s today’s agriculture news.
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A national farmer-led coalition called Farmers for Climate Solutions is calling on the federal government to invest $300 million into the agriculture sector to help it reduce its emissions by 10 million tonnes.
“Other Canadian sectors are being well-supported to reduce emissions and reskill the labour force, but farmers are being left behind,” said Arzeena Hamir, the co-chair of the Farmers for Climate Solutions Task Force, in a news release. As Global News reports, the coalition has six key programs it says are designed to help reduce the sectors environmental footprint. These programs include doing more
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., a major broiler chicken producer based in Greeley, Colo., has pleaded guilty to price fixing and bid rigging, and has been sentenced to pay approximately $107 million in criminal fines for its…
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(Reuters) - Pilgrim’s Pride Corp, one of the largest U.S. poultry producers, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay a $107.9 million fine on Tuesday to settle federal charges it conspired to fix chicken prices and passed on the costs to consumers and other purchasers.
FILE PHOTO: Chicken is pictured in New York March 11, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Chief Executive Fabio Sandri entered the guilty plea on the company’s behalf at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore in Denver. A plea agreement had been reached in October.
The plea followed the indictments last year of 10 poultry industry executives, including former Pilgrim’s Pride Chief Executives Jayson Penn and Bill Lovette, on price-fixing charges. All 10 have pleaded not guilty.