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And I should say it does not just involve farmer members of 

 Land O'Lakes. It also involves quite a number of our employees. 

 And, actually, increasingly it is involving a number of husband and 

 wife teams because, quite clearly, that is the success of the family 

 farming model in this country, and both parties in the marriage ac- 

 tually have a strong commitment to see a successful farming enter- 

 prise. So the women are very, very involved in our programs. 



Ms. McKlNNEY. And the second question is about your agri- 

 business management training. Do you have a relationship with 

 farmers in Georgia? 



Ms. Cashman. Not at this time. Georgia — ^you mean Georgia in 

 the United States, right? 



Ms. McKlNNEY. Georgia in the United States. 



Ms. Cashman. Well, we do, but it is not a real strong one. There 

 is an employee of Land O'Lakes who is a Georgian farmer and so 

 we do have some connections, but it has not been very strong at 

 this point. 



We have had some discussions with — on other matters with the 

 Carter Center, and that directly ties to agriculture in child survival 

 issues in West Africa in particular. 



Ms. McKlNNEY. Thank you. 



Mr. Joseph. You know Georgia, the former Soviet Union, their 

 representative is Mr. Shevardnadze. 



Mr. Penny. I want to thank this panel for their presentation this 

 morning. It has been quite helpful. 



With that, we will move on to our final witness for the day, Dr. 

 Craig Infanger, Resident Policy Adviser. We have about 40 minutes 

 before my deadline, and so it seems to me that we are going to 

 have plenty of time to finish this up. We are well within schedule 

 this morning. 



We do welcome you, and ask you to summarize your remarks. 

 Your written testimony will be included in the committee record. 



STATEMENT OF CRAIG L. INFANGER, RESIDENT AGRICUL- 

 TURAL POLICY ADVISOR, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, MINISTRY 

 OF AGRICULTURE 



Mr. Infanger. Mr. Chairman, members of the subcommittee, I 

 am pleased to respond to your letter of invitation and happy to be 

 here today. 



I have prepared some written remarks that are with the commit- 

 tee staff which attempt to respond to the questions that were in 

 your letter of invitation, but let me just summarize some of my 

 thoughts. 



For the last 5 months I have been the Resident Agricultural Pol- 

 icy Adviser in the Ministry of Agriculture for the Russian Federa- 

 tion. In that position, I am sponsored by the U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service and Extension Service. I 

 am officed just down the hall from the Minister's office next to his 

 other top aides. 



Over these past 5 months, I have been able to establish what I 

 think is a pragmatic working relationship with the Minister and 

 some of the top leadership within the Ministry and in other organi- 

 zations of the Russian Federation. I would want the committee to 

 know that there is a very small group of dedicated Government of- 



