And even in the conservative grain-farming states, two hundred thousand farmers joined a group that called for major economic changes.
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The company stumbled during the recent U.S. recession, suffering rare losses as its hog-farming operations grappled with higher grain costs and an industrywide hog glut.
Chile has not undergone the job-destroying switch from traditional farming to the highly mechanised prairie grain-growing that is typical of the United States or, more recently, parts of Europe.
"There are well-publicised grain shortages in France and America and this is some of the best farming land not only in the county, but the country, " he said.
