Philip Morris is known as a tobacco company.

Philip Morris is known as a tobacco company, still few people--including farmers--recognize the companies of Philip Morris as leading purchasers of agricultural returnss in the United States. Agricultural commodities are primary ingredients in each product produced by the Philip Morris family of companies and its well-known brands, in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as Oscar Mayer, Post, Nabisco, Maxwell House, Marlboro and many others.

"Prior to 1998 the relationship between Philip Morris and the agricultural community could best be described as `buy-sell' which is, fundamentally,

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