The New Merchants of Grain: Out of the Shadows

The New Merchants of Grain: Out of the Shadows

In 1979, Dan Morgan, a journalist with the Washington Post, wrote Merchants of Grain, a definitive history of the international grain trade. In the 40 years since Dan’s book was published the grain ma…

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