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AS SENATE MAJORITY leader, Lyndon Johnson used to attribute the politics of the dairy industry to the fact that every state had “at least one dairy cow and two senators.” But today, with the global expansion of agricultural trade, Johnson’s adage would have to be amended to note that many foreign countries also have dairy cows, but no U.S. senators.

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