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...machinery is estimated at $30 million. Avocados and artichokes are among the hottest of the hot crops. Observes Gerhardt Clasen, an avocado grower in the town of Fallbrook: "Thieves can strip a tree in half an hour and get $15 for their work." Even more amazing, according to Edward Boutonnet, who is chairman of the California Artichoke Advisory Board, are "the sightseers who stop their cars and pick our artichokes. They're affluent doctors and lawyers and people like that. You confront them when they're stealing and they get insulted. But if you stole things from their...
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