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. ...
