Article: No pain, much grain: Argentina's pampas enjoys a boom as ag exports fly high.(Executive Travel)

Martin Vassalli says he still doesn't know what hit him. A little over a year ago his family's farm equipment company, Vassalli Fabril, went six months without selling a single one of its trademark Don Roque grain combines. The company's 44,000-square-meter factory sat idle as creditors got antsy.

Today, his 180 employees are clocking in on weekends to churn out a record 30 combines a month. But even at that torrid pace they're unable to meet the insatiable demand of farmers, who wait three months for the privilege of buying one of Vassalli's US$175,000 machines. "I've had to turn down farmers who walk in with briefcases full of cash," says Vassalli, 26. "We've ...

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