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Article: World trade talks on crop subsidies hit home with Minnesota farmers.
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- August 5, 2004
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By Lee Egerstrom, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 5--The past weekend's agreement by trade negotiators at Geneva to resume the Doha round of international trade talks is being greeted with mixed emotions out on Minnesota farms.
For farmers such as Curt Watson, the issues involved in the trade talks are as close to him as the ground he walks on. He raises corn, soybeans and sugarbeets at his Renville farm in western Minnesota.
These are the three most important crops grown in the state, generating revenue of from $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion most years for corn farmers, $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion ...