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Published 2/25/2009 at Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's pledge to cut subsidies to big farm businesses in his first budget reopens a long-simmering fight about whether -- and if so, how -- the United States should reform its traditional farm supports.
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