In the early 90s I was a rookie television anchor in Monterey County, CA. I lived a few miles from the Panetta family walnut farm in Carmel Valley.

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In Kyrgyzstan he is driven around in a bucking jeep with harvesters among the walnut trees of the Ferghana Valley.

ECONOMIST: Trees