Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates should know better than to tangle with Vidalia onion growers. From Bloomberg News:
A farm owned by a Gates-related company is on probation in Georgia after neighboring farmers accused it of substituting garden-variety bulbs for renowned Vidalias, the Bordeaux grapes of the onion world.
The farm was disciplined in June for a lesser violation and paid no fine, although it lost onions valued at more than $100,000 when they rotted during the probe, according to state estimates.
“We felt that spoilage that took place was discipline enough,” said Gary Black, Georgia’s commissioner of agriculture. If it errs again, the farm could forfeit its license, state officials say.
The whole article is worth a read, particularly the tactics rival farmers used to catch Stanley Farms yellow-handed.
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