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Farm bill on verge of passage after a long three years of haggling in Congress

by Ed O’Keefe and Kimberly Kindy

Congress is on the verge of dramatically overhauling federal farm and nutrition policies affecting a broad range of issues, from how food is packaged and sold to how the government helps poor people pay for their groceries.

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