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subject[1][3] = "Chuck Obern:";
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subject[1][5] = "See! See all the roots?  Those are all eggplant roots.  They're nice white roots.  That means they're real healthy.  You can see all these roots here are happy roots.";

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subject[2][5] = 'For Chuck Obern, happiness is being rooted here, on a farm twice the size of New York\'s Central park.  More specifically, happiness is harvesting 3,000 bushels of eggplants a day despite havoc wreaked by droughts and hurricanes.';

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subject[3][3] = "Chuck Obern:";
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subject[3][5] = "It's not often you see crops that are growing this tall.  And, it just gives you more growing space for the plant.  The plant continuously grows.  We've been harvesting off of this plant since February.";

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subject[4][5] = "Eggplants notwithstanding, what really elicits Obern's enthusiasm these days is an innovative water re-use project that is likely to save him money, as well as benefit the environment.";

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subject[5][3] = "Chuck Obern:";
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subject[5][5] = "Well, they're taking these sheets of steel and they're hammering them into the ground.  There's a hydraulic hammer that's just forcing them into the ground.  We're putting 20 feet down and leaving about ten feet out.  The purpose of all this is to hold the water up.  We're downstream of that dam.  We're building a dam to hold the water and all that water will be our tail water.  The water that comes off the farm will now be held to 16 feet above sea level so we can have access to this water to reuse it.";

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subject[6][5] = "The government is paying two-thirds the cost of construction and Obern, the rest.  He initiated the project, and fought long and hard for both approval and funding from the government.";

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subject[7][3] = "Chuck Obern:";
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subject[7][5] = "Well, water costs money.  Water costs me in diesel fuel and maintenance of all these turbines.  So, I suspect we're going to get somewhere between 30 and 60 percent of our water is now going to come through this water re-use project, I'm hoping.";

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subject[8][5] = "Obern is eager to do his part in conserving and cleaning water alongside state agencies working toward the same goals.  However, Everglades restoration is not his business; eggplants are.";

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subject[9][3] = "Chuck Obern:";
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subject[9][5] = "If American people want me to do all these pro-environmental things that's fine, but I think they need to compensate me for the work that we do.  I can't, you know, save the birds and the bees and compete with the Mexican who doesn't have to; it's not fair.";

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subject[10][5] = "Obern ships 1.3 million boxes of veggies annually.  He grossed $12 million last year -- an impressive number, but deceiving.  Farming is capital intensive; the costs are exorbitant.  Obern's profit margin is alarmingly small.";

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subject[11][3] = "Chuck Obern:";
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subject[11][5] = "If I can't make money, then I'm going to quit.  And you know what's coming:  it's houses.";

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subject[12][5] = "East of Obern's farm, in the Everglades Agricultural Area, farmers like Rick Roth are contending with dramatic losses of land, not to developers but to subsidence.  The organic muck soil oxidizes when it's over-drained and disappears into thin air, depleting agricultural fields and leaving area buildings perched on posts.";

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subject[13][3] = "Rick Roth:";
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subject[13][5] = "I started farming 30 years ago and some of the land we farmed then, it was just going into agriculture production.  And, when you plowed up this soil, you picked it up and looked at it, you could see the brown and red fibers of plants.  After you farm it for many, many years, you break down the composition of the soil, so the soil now is kind of like the consistency of talcum powder on the top.  This soil here was over six feet deep, and it's now two feet, to two-and-a-half feet deep.  There's areas 20 miles south of here that were four feet deep, and now, they're less than a foot deep.";

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subject[14][5] = "The Everglades Agricultural Area--or EAA encompasses more 1,100 square miles.  Sugar cane is the leading crop.  Land prices vary depending on the amount of muck soils left.";

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subject[15][3] = "Rick Roth:";
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subject[15][5] = "At some point, you're going to get to the point, where a combination of the soil being only a foot deep, and the price of land being high enough, that it's going to be attractive for homeowners.";

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subject[16][5] = "Roth, farms in excess of 90 percent of his 1,600 acres, growing cane, sweet corn, rice, and radishes - lots of radishes -- six crops of them annually.  More are grown here, in the EAA, than anywhere else in the US.";

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subject[17][3] = "Rick Roth: ";
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subject[17][5] = "Ummm.  A little hot.  One of the things that's really funny to me as a farmer in this area is we've been fighting people that say you know, we use too much fertilizer, and too much runoff, and all that; and part of that is kind of a conspiracy, shall we say, to run agriculture out of business.  Now, as we get into the discussions of development, now all of a sudden they like us better:  They think, oh no, no, no, no! We don't want development! We want the farmers to stay!";

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subject[18][5] = 'Roth says farmers use fertilizers at, in his words, "Unbelievably low rates compared to 20 years ago."  He says they\'re doing their part to be good neighbors to the remaining Everglades, just south of here.';

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subject[19][3] = "Rick Roth:";
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subject[19][5] = "I guess the biggest challenge for us and, I think, as we move forward, is continuing to be able to coexist -- I guess would be a good word -- with the environment and with the encroaching and increasing population.";