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  • U.S. Sugar deal was Crist's idea

    06/24/2008 11:41:16 AM PDT · by NautiNurse · 14 replies · 138+ views
    St. Petersburg Times ^ | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | Craig Pittman
    [snip] Florida will buy every bit of land now owned by the nation's largest sugar company and use it to restore the River of Grass. Although many details of the $1.75-billion deal still must be worked out before it closes in November, the bottom line is this: U.S. Sugar will continue farming its land — 187,000 acres, three times the size of Orlando — for six more years, then shut everything down and hand it over to the state. [snip] Company executives called the decision to sell bittersweet, since it will end more than 70 years of farming there. U.S....