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Many growers are turning to the H-2A guest worker program – a legal pipeline for seasonal foreign labor that has quadrupled in size over the past decade.

Three years later, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has nearly quadrupled in size, its market value rising from $90 billion to more than $335 billion despite a recent pullback.

The amount of time refugees will have to be in the UK before being allowed to apply for permanent residence will be quadrupled from five years to 20.

Prices more than quadrupled, reaching nearly $50 in early 1980 before regulators stepped in and unraveled the Hunt brothers’ attempt to corner the market.

Antimony prices have quadrupled from two years ago and supplies are now scarce, just as defense companies need to replenish stockpiles of armaments exhausted by the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine.