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The fiesta’s over for Mexico’s agave farmers
As a boy, Antonio visited his father’s dairy farm several times a week and helped feed the cows and sow corn. His family, mostly farmers from small towns in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, were surprised but supportive when he trained to become a …