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Hawaii News

Split vote kills plan to bolster farm rights

COURTESY HAWAII CROP IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
The value of the local seed crop industry rose 26 percent to $223 million in 2009 from $177 million the year before, according to the Hawaii office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Seed crops, such as the corn seed field on Molokai operated by Dow AgroSciences, above, is HawaiiĆ¢??s largest value crop.