<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Longer story here:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/09/27/2290212/id-dairy-farmers-failed-to-win.html#storylink=misearch">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/09/27/2290212/id-dairy-farmers-failed-to-win.html#storylink=misearch</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Little known fact:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; ">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><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; "><br>Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/09/27/2290212/id-dairy-farmers-failed-to-win.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy</div></div><div> </div><div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr">
<font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 28, 2012 3:57 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] Idaho dairy farmers failed to win farm bill vote<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv1343467712"><div><div style="">Courtesy of KHQ at:</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap;">http://www.khq.com/story/19654072/id-dairy-farmers-failed-to-win-farm-bill-vote</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap;"> </span></div><div style="">------------------------------------</div><div><div style="margin:12px 0px;padding:0px;"></div><h3 class="yiv1343467712" style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;clear:both;"><font size="3"><span style="">Idaho dairy farmers failed to win farm bill vote</span></font></h3><div></div><div style="margin:12px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="">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="margin:12px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="">Though a farm bill cleared the Senate, it's languished in the House.</span></div><div style="margin:12px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="">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="margin:12px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="">After Congress quit Saturday, a bill likely won't be voted on until after Election Day.</span></div><div style="margin:12px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="">That means the current farm bill will expire first.</span></div><div style="margin:12px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="">U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, who represents Idaho's dairy country, pushed for a vote this month.</span></div><div style="margin:12px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="">Rep. Raul Labrador declined to publicly back a September vote, however, saying he wants
more-robust spending reductions in the bill.</span></div></div><div style="">------------------------------------<br><br>Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .<div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div>http://www.MoscowCares.com</div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div><div> </div></div></div></div></div><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a><br> mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"
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