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jdkeepsmiling's Articles In World Trade Issues
August 20, 2007 by jdkeepsmiling
Quite a while ago, I watched a movie about an apple farmer in Washington titled " Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture and the new American Farmer. " This was an excellent documentary that pointed out the plight that many apple farmers face from new stiff overseas competition. It also dove a little into agribusiness, and how hard it is for these guys who have 20-200 acres to even get their fruit to market. They have to go through packer, who then goes through wholesaler, who then sells it to t...