<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">They will just jack up the price of milk. Not that Congress cares.</SPAN></div>
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<DIV><SPAN>Longer story here:</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 13px">Little known fact:</DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 14px">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.</SPAN>
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<DIV>Ron Force<BR>Moscow Idaho USA<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Courtesy of <SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>KHQ</SPAN> at:</DIV>
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<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 12px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN>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.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 12px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN>Though a farm bill cleared the Senate, it's languished in the House.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 12px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN>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.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 12px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN>After Congress quit Saturday, a bill likely won't be voted on until after Election Day.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 12px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN>That means the current farm bill will expire first.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 12px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN>U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, who represents Idaho's dairy country, pushed for a vote this month.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 12px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN>Rep. Raul Labrador declined to publicly back a September vote, however, saying he wants more-robust spending reductions in the bill.</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Tom Hansen</DIV>
<DIV>Moscow, Idaho</DIV>
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<DIV>"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!)."</DIV>
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<DIV>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</DIV>
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