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Growing in Spurts

Bill Mongelluzzo | Dec 16, 2011 1:47PM GMT

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Few industries face the unique market forces that can affect the flow of trade as agriculture does. Markets can be as fickle as the weather. That’s why cotton can be a bumper U.S. export one year and a bit of a bust the next — and why export growth in 2012,

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