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good, strong farm bill" that will reduce the deficit and support millions of agricultural jobs.
• The five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill cuts farm subsidies and land conservation spending by about $2 billion a year but largely protects sugar growers. The vote was 65 to 34.
• Johnson says the bill finally includes meaningful payment limitations with an overall $250,000 hard cap on commodity programs.
• The measure now goes to the Republican-led House, where conservatives are certain to resist its costs.
• Johnson says the Senate has done its work, and now the House Agriculture Committee needs to move a bill to provide farmers and ranchers with certainty.
• The current agricultural program ends in September.
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Hope is theme of Pine Ridge reservation campaign
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A campaign on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to raise awareness about the high rate of suicide among the reservation's youth is reminding them what all of them can have -- hope.
• The rate of suicide on the reservation is at least 150 percent higher than the national average. In 2009, the Oglala Sioux Tribe declared a state of emergency because of state of suicides on the reservation, which also has high rates of unemployment, violence and alcoholism.
• As part of the Lakota Voice Project, organizers gave about 200 disposable cam (Continued on page 16)
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