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Yahoo! Finance
04-14-2009, 03:20 PM
<b>Yahoo! Finance: Commodity News</b>

As drought forces families in the West to shorten their showers and let their lawns turn brown, two Depression-era government programs have been paying some of the nation's biggest farms hundreds of millions of dollars to grow water-thirsty crops in what was once desert.

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