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Mr. Allard. Just one more question, if I might, Mr. Chairman. 

 I am curious as to how you select your farmers from this area to 

 go over there and to be representatives of the United States. 



Mr. Evans. Well, we try very carefully to match the individual 

 to the request. We get a request in writing from these people, a 

 mission statement is drawn up, and then we begin to recruit, and 

 we literally recruit all over this country. And we have a big com- 

 puter base of farmers who are willing to go and we are recruiting 

 new people every day, and there is a great search to match the re- 

 quest to exactly the kind of person that can best serve that need, 

 and we try to get older people usually with a lot of experience that 

 have been successful in the specific field that they are inquiring 

 about. 



Mr. Allard. Thank you very much for your frank responses to 

 my questions. I appreciate that. 



Mr. Penny. Ms. McKinney, any questions? 



Ms. McKinney. No, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Penny. Mr. Nussle. 



Mr. Nussle. I will pass. Go ahead. 



Mr. Penny. Mr. Stenholm. 



Mr. Stenholm. First Mr. Gashler, in reading your testimony, 

 sorry for missing it, and Cooper I welcome you back to the commit- 

 tee. 



Mr. Evans. Thank you. 



Mr. Stenholm. I am curious of the dilemma that we constantly 

 face. You point out that many in Russian agriculture observe that 

 the aid we are giving are destroying their farmers. 



Mr. Gashler. That is correct. 



Mr. Stenholm. And yet our farm policy is designed to produce 

 the wheat that the Russian market needs. So what do we do? Do 

 we stop producing the wheat for the Russian market because we 

 are destroying their market or do we produce the wheat and then 

 debate whether or not it is good for the people that we are, in fact, 

 trying to help? 



You get into it, and I am not sure there is an answer to the ques- 

 tion. 



Mr. Gashler. Briefly the question was asked, what was one of 

 the things that we were most surprised at. One of the things that 

 I was most surprised at was that the — there is not the shortages 

 that we see on television. The bread lines that we see commonly 

 are because bread is made in one little factory and it is only sold 

 at certain times of the day and to get it, they have to stand in line. 

 It isn't because there is a shortage. 



Now, there is not a shortage of grain over there. In some com- 

 modities there are shortages, and where there are shortages, let's 

 help them. Let's provide it. But I am saying we are going in com- 

 petition with them. As a farmer myself, a few years ago we had 

 Australia dump a bunch of lamb on us. That didn't make me 

 happy. It doesn't make them happy to have a bunch of grain 

 dumped on them £uid for us to go in direct competition with their 

 farmers either, private or state. 



Now, what can we do with the grain? I am saying there are plen- 

 ty of countries that do need it from Bangladesh to Somalia. Let's 

 provide it where needed, and let's use the grain that we have here 



