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Farm Bill

The House today approved fundamental changes in the nation's agricultural policy as it's existed since the Great Depression. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports on the so-called Freedom-to-Farm legislation that gradually ends subsidies from the federal government and leaves farming to market forces. The Senate has already passed similar legislation.

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