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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A $197 million deal to buy U.S. Sugar Corp. farmland for Everglades restoration finally went through Tuesday morning after more than two years of economic hurdles and legal fights. Florida property taxpayers are picking up the tab for a 26,800-acre deal that environmental groups hail as a chance to acquire strategically located farmland long off limits to efforts to restore water flows to the Everglades.
