Gates Foiled by Georgia’s Powerful Vidalia Onion Regulators
Billionaire Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft Corp., attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 11, 2015 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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The business acumen of software magnate Bill Gates, which made him the world’s richest person, may not apply to onions.
A farm owned by a Gates-related company is on probation in Georgia after neighboring farmers accused it of substituting garden-variety bulbs for renowned Vidalias, the Bordeaux grapes of the onion world.