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California garlic farmers cede decade-long battle to Chinese exports

San Jose Mercury News

Don Christopher's garlic fields have survived droughts and El Nino, gophers and beetles, white mold and roundworm.

But the founder of Christopher Ranch, the nation's largest garlic producer, says low-priced exports from could doom U.S. commercial production of the pungent bulb - unless U.S. farmers adopt dramatic, if seemingly unpatriotic, measures.