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Chellie Pingree: Vegetables are called specialty crops! Don't ask me to explain why.

On the recordDecember 31, 2013
Vegetables are called specialty crops! Don't ask me to explain why.
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Chellie Pingree
Democratic · Maine

Editor's note · Context

Pingree expresses frustration over the classification of vegetables in subsidy programs.

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