Dwarf wheat
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
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In the early 19 hundreds, newly wed cathy and cappy jones left connecticut to start a new life as far mers in north west mexico's yake valley. It was a little known place, a few hundred kilometers south of the border with arizona, dry, dusty and largely destitute. When kapi died in 19 31, kathy decided to stay on, just down the road. The state's ambitious governor set up an agricultural research centre, the yake valley experiment station. Impressive stone pillars went up at the entrance. Irrigation canals were dug. For a while, the centre raised cattle, sheep and pigs. And then it
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