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2:13 pm
Wed April 25, 2012

Business Beat: Columbia's major export to world power is scrap

Credit Eva Dou / KBIA
A pile of copper wire at Fusselman Salvage. Copper is the top type of scrap that Missouri exports in dollar value

This week: Columbia’s biggest export to China isn’t corn, soybeans, or any manufactured product.  It’s scrap metal.  In fact trade experts are calling Columbia’s export “waste and scrap.” Plus, find out how one farmer is still shifting through the aftermath after losing hundreds of acres of farmland.

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