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hearing schedule
Hearing/Meeting: Regional Farm Bill field hearing: Redmond, Oregon
  Full Committee Field Hearing
 
Date & Time Tuesday, August 15 2006
9:00 AM
Location
   
Description Audio replay of the 2 hour, 27 min hearing
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Witnesses & Opening Statements
   
Panel 1
     
  Barry Bushue
Salem, Oregon
Representing Oregon Farm Bureau Federation

  Sherman Reese
Pendleton, Oregon
Representing the Oregon Wheat Growers League

  Ray Souza
Turlock, California
Representing Mel-Delin Dairy

  Sharon Livingston
Salem, Oregon
Representing Oregon Cattlemen's Association

Panel 2
     
  Ted Lorensen
Salem, Oregon
Representing the Oregon Department of Forestry

  Klaren Koompin
American Falls, Idaho
Representing the Potato Growers of Idaho

  Pete Brentano
Wilsonville, Oregon
Representing the Oregon Nurserymen Association

Panel 3
     
  Jim Bernau
Turner, Oregon
Representing Willamette Valley Vineyards

  Jennifer Euwer Hunt
Hood River, Oregon
Representing the Pear Bureau Northwest and Northwest Horticulture Association

  Doug Krahmer
St. Paul, Oregon
Representing the Oregon Blueberry Commission

  Mark Wettstein
Ontario, Oregon
Representing the Nyssa-Nampa Beet Growers Association

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