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Can global farm-to-market infrastructure keep pace?(Originated from KRT FORUM (ARCHIVE PHOTO of the columnist)
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Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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April 1, 1997
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1997 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By Dennis T. Avery
Bridge News
CHURCHVILLE, Va. _ Farmers in the rich countries tend to take their transportation for granted. We're long past the days, for example, when American farmers and their sons harnessed up the horses each spring to work on the local gravel roads.
Too many of today's farmers think the paved farm-to-market roads, the railroads and the barge locks on the rivers have been there forever.
Few First World farmers have visited in the countries where there are no paved two-lane roads ... where trucks ford the rivers instead of whizzing over bridges ... where tolls are collected at the end of a rifle barrel.
Feel some ...
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