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Erin McKinstry/For The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
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They’re not making any more farmland. That’s what Ruth Rabinowitz’s father used to tell her. He’d grown up poor in the great depression and, after putting himself through medical school, saved enough money to buy a few small broccoli farms near his Phoenix, Arizona, home. . But her dad didn’t farm those acres himself. In […]
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