[Vision2020] Idaho dairy farmers failed to win farm bill vote

Ron Force rforce2003 at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 28 19:13:13 PDT 2012


Longer story here:
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/09/27/2290212/id-dairy-farmers-failed-to-win.html#storylink=misearch


Little known fact:
Idaho's roughly 553,000 dairy cows and 560 licensed dairies make the state America's third-biggest dairy producer, with about $2 billion in cash receipts. Only California's and Wisconsin's dairy industries are bigger.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/09/27/2290212/id-dairy-farmers-failed-to-win.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy
 
Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA


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 From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 3:57 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Idaho dairy farmers failed to win farm bill vote
 

Courtesy of KHQ at:

http://www.khq.com/story/19654072/id-dairy-farmers-failed-to-win-farm-bill-vote
  
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Idaho dairy farmers failed to win farm bill vote
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho's $2 billion milk industry failed to get Congress to pass a farm bill this month with provisions to help dairies mitigate rising costs and volatile markets that have spurred three quarters of losses.
Though a farm bill cleared the Senate, it's languished in the House.
House GOP leaders in Washington, D.C., say they didn't have the necessary votes, with conservatives demanding deeper food stamp cuts and Democrats opposing such austerity.
After Congress quit Saturday, a bill likely won't be voted on until after Election Day.
That means the current farm bill will expire first.
U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, who represents Idaho's dairy country, pushed for a vote this month.
Rep. Raul Labrador declined to publicly back a September vote, however, saying he wants more-robust spending reductions in the bill.
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Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .

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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students.  The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
 
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