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Archive Home > 2012 > November > 29 > Emotions run hot after peanut butter plant closes

Emotions run hot after peanut butter plant closes

By Jeri Clausing / The Bulletin
November 29, 2012

PORTALES, N.M. — Farmers in a revered peanut-growing region along the New Mexico-Texas border should be celebrating one of the best harvests in recent memory.

Instead, millions of pounds of their prized sweet Valencia peanuts sit in barns at a peanut butter plant shuttered for two months amid a....

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