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☆ A Texas farm owned by one of the US' biggest potato growers paid over $1.3 million in back wages to workers after denying them overtime pay
  + stars: | 2022-02-21 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A farm in Texas owned by one of the US' biggest potato growers didn't pay overtime premiums, the DOL found. The DOL says it had since recovered more than $1.3 million in back pay for almost 500 warehouse workers. The Dalhart, Texas farm – operated by Blaine Larsen Farms, one of the US' biggest potato growers – also failed to properly report an outbreak of COVID-19, the DOL said. The department said that it had recovered almost $1.35 million in back wages for the warehouse workers. The labor department said it also investigated Larsen Farms twice in 2020.
☆ Meet the Thanksgiving Lobby — the special interests with Turkey Day money on their minds
  + stars: | 2020-11-26 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Several companies and trade groups that produce Thanksgiving staples have a significant presence on Capitol Hill. Turkey producers, cranberry companies, and others spend money to lobby the federal government and make direct contributions to politicians' campaigns. Loading Something is loading. If it's on your Turkey Day plate, someone in Washington lobbied to make sure it somehow got there at a favorable price point and maybe even under friendlier regulations. Each year, a wide range of groups including turkey producers, cranberry growers, and even the National Football League spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to influence politicians and policy in their favor.
☆ Farmaceuticals: Vets face pressures to prescribe
  + stars: | 2014-09-15 | by ( Brian Grow | Reuters Graphic | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +29 min
The feed tickets examined represent a fraction of the tens of thousands issued annually to poultry farms run by or for major producers. Some of its feed has contained low levels of one antibiotic, feed tickets show. REUTERS/Randall Hill MODERN BARN: Nearly 20,000 broiler chicks are housed inside a Foster Farms chicken ranch in Stanislaus County, California. As the CDC studied what investigators informally called the “Foster Farms Outbreak,” researchers soon made a troubling discovery. Reuters asked to see Foster Farms’ feed tickets from that period; the company didn’t respond to that request.
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