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Brazil Dream Cut Short By Bad Luck
No Room for Error in Unforgiving Brazil
Kieran Gartlan DTN South America Correspondent Bio \| Email \| Blog
Wed Nov 18, 2009 06:10 AM CST

LUIS EDUARDO MAGALHAES, Brazil (DTN) -- Young American farmer Scott Harker has had a roller coaster experience in Brazil during the past two years. Unfortunately for him, it has been mostly downhill.

Harker migrated to Brazil in 2007 to start life as a frontier farmer in the sweltering outback of Bahia state. Little did he imagine that just 15 months later he would brave Alaska's cold to make ends meet.

"I guess I reached too far," said 31-year-old Harker, from Melba, Idaho. "Everything that could go wrong, went wrong, in Brazil, and then some."

It all started back in 2005. ...

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