Pella had an army of window plant workers after World War II, when farmer Gary Vermeer turned a modest invention--a modified farm wagon with a mechanical hoist--into a company in 1948.

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He helps produce about 60 varieties, starting with a dark green bud called "Mighty Mite, " a plant for urban window boxes that grows to the size and shape of a corn dog.

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Or just look a few hundred kilometres out of the window at the shoe-making plant which announced on December 9th that it would shut for several weeks, because sales to Brazil, its main market, had collapsed.

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