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.

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Filburn, upheld a Roosevelt-era law limiting grain production to prop up prices even when the farmer in question was growing grain entirely for his own consumption.

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But in the great grain growing areas, by and large, it's just left to rot, or sometimes even burned in the fields.

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