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npr.org - 5/11/2009

Drought, politics trouble farmers in California

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National Public Radio: California is in its third year of drought, and many farmers in the state's crop-rich Central Valley are looking at dusty fields, or worse, are cutting down their orchards before the trees die. Hardest hit is Westlands, the biggest irrigated region in the country, where ...

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