The California Canning Peach Association’s longtime President and CEO, Rich Hudgins, has fired off letters to major grocery chains asking them to buy American peaches instead of foreign fruit, such as from China. Such foreign competitors often get huge subsidies from their governments, which enable them to undercut American competitors. Of course, U.S. fruit growers, unlike their fellow American growers of program crops such as soybeans and wheat, receive no such subsidies.
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