This past year has been a challenge as farmers have had to
continue to make production and marketing decisions in the
turbulence of an economic crisis that burst into view in the last
half of 2008 and damaged or destroyed a number of pillars of the
U.S. economy. By the first part of 2009, what had been a domestic
economic crisis created repercussions in economies around the
world
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