How Japan’s Expensive Melons Can Cost $36,000.

Last week in Japan, a fruit and vegetable wholesaler paid a record ¥5.8 million (USD$36,487.28) for two of the 912 Yubari melons that bidders hoped to purchase at the Sapporo Central Wholesale Market’s auction: Japan’s Expensive Melons Explaining the daily attention he gives to growing his melons, one farmer says he never takes a vacation. […]