iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Jan 12, 2021 11:27am (Christina Ryan/Calgary StarMetro)
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Here’s today’s agriculture news.
The Lead
We start this morning in Alberta, where the RCMP is reportedly investigating the death of a Cargill employee who died of COVID-19 while working at the company’s meat-packing plant in High River, Alta.
As the Calgary Herald reports, an RCMP spokesperson confirmed the police have opened a criminal investigation after a complaint was filed by worker Benito Quesada’s 16-year-old daughter on Friday, alleging the company was negligent in protecting its workers. The COVID outbreak at the meat plant last spring was one of the largest in North America, with nearly 1,000 staff testing pos
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian blueberry farmers and embassy officials pushed back Tuesday against claims that U.S. producers are being driven out of business by cheap imports from north of the . . .
WASHINGTON, D.C. Canadian blueberry farmers and embassy officials pushed back Tuesday against claims that U.S. producers are being driven out of business
Senior Judge
Robert Rancourt was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Addiction Policy Forum. As a member of the board, Rancourt joins leaders across the fields of prevention, treatment, recovery, criminal justice, and advocacy who work to support patients, families, and communities impacted by addiction.
Since his appointment as a Minnesota district court judge in 2002, Rancourt has championed improving how the judicial system responds to addiction. In September 2020, he was assigned to serve statewide as senior judge for Minnesota.
“I am honored to serve on the Board of Directors of the Addiction Policy Forum,” said Rancourt. “This is a wonderful organization that is leading the fight against the deadly consequences of addiction.”
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Members of the American Blueberry Growers Alliance (ABGA), a group representing U.S. domestic blueberry farmers, today provided information to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) during a hearing on the impact of rising imports during the U.S. growing and harvest seasons. American blueberry growers across the country – mostly small, family-run farms – have been devastated by an influx in blueberry imports by 75 percent in the past five years, according to U.S. import data. Because of booming domestic demand, we should be enjoying a market in which there is room for both domestic and foreign growers to profit, said Jerome Crosby, Chairman of the ABGA Board of Directors and owner of Pineneedle Farms in Willacoochee, Georgia. However, foreign government policies targeting the United States market and large corporate import interests have combined to bring massive volumes of blueberries