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02/19/07
Urban growth could push Arizona farmers to Mexico
Filed under: General, Real Estate
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 11:37 am

Urban growth into Arizona’s farmland will push farmers to take part of the state’s $6.3 billion-a-year agriculture industry into Mexico, the state’s agriculture director said. “The growers are going to go to Mexico. They’re looking there now,” Donald Butler, director of the Arizona Department of Agriculture, said Thursday in an interview. “You keep pushing and pretty soon you’re going to have a situation like you do with oil. It’s going to be imported,” Butler said. “The growers here are going to go to Mexico and produce the crops and send them back up.”  More…

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