date:Jul 27, 2012
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Prices reflect a growing demand for almonds in a region that produces 80 percent of the world's supply, and table grapes, which were competed for by both raisin packers and wineries that suffered weather-related shortages in 2011.
Our agricultural economy is connected to the rest of the planet, said Dan Sumner, an agriculture economist at the University of California-Davis. Poorer countries around the world are turning into middle-income countries and they want fruits and vegetables, which