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Re: potato cartel - WSJ



If the government won't prop up agricultural prices, the private
sector will try to do it.

On 9/26/06, Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx> wrote:
September 26, 2006
This Spud's Not for You
Growing Co-Op of Farmers Seeks to Become
OPEC of Potatoes by Controlling Supply
By TIMOTHY W. MARTIN
September 26, 2006; Page B1

SHELLEY, IDAHO -- It took farmer Merrill Hanny three days to bury $100,000 worth of his perfectly good potatoes. He remembers how they crunched beneath his tractor as he plowed over his muddy field in the spring of last year.

-- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.



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