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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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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.
complete story here... (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090414/subsidizing_thirsty_crops.html?.v=1)