CONTENTS 



Page 



Statements 



Hon. Patrick J. Leahy, U.S. Senator from Vermont 1 



Hon. Richard G. Lugar, U.S. Senator from Indiana 3 



Hon. Max Baucus, U.S. Senator from Montana 5 



Hon. Kent Conrad, U.S. Senator from North Dakota 7 



Hon. Russell D. Feingold, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin 8 



Hon. Charles E. Grassley, U.S. Senator from Iowa 10 



Hon. Larry E. Craig, U.S. Senator from Idaho 10 



Hon. David Pryor, U.S. Senator from Arkansas 11 



Hon. Thad Cochran, U.S. Senator from Mississippi 12 



Hon. Thomas A. Daschle, U.S. Senator from South Dakota 12 



Hon. Mike Espy, Secretary of Agriculture 13 



Hon. Michael Kantor, U.S. Trade Representative 17 



Robert L. Foster, vice chairman, board of directors, Agri-Mark, Inc 46 



Leland Swenson, president, National Farmers Union 48 



Mike Bauerle, immediate past chairman, Nebraska Corn Development, 



Utilization, and Marketing Board 50 



Roger Stuber, president, National Cattlemen's Association 52 



Martha R. Roberts, Deputy Commissioner for Food Safety, Florida Agri- 

 culture and Consumer Services 53 



Dean R. Kleckner, American Farm Bureau Federation 55 



APPENDLX 



Prepared statements 



Senator Lugar 63 



Senator Conrad 63 



Senator Feingold 66 



Senator Grassley 67 



Senator Pryor 68 



Senator Cochran 69 



Senator Dole 69 



Senator Harkin 70 



Secretary Espy 70 



Ambassador Kantor 75 



Robert L. Foster 83 



Leland Swenson, with attachments 86 



Michael Bauerle 108 



Roger Stuber 109 



Martha R. Roberts, with attachments Ill 



Dean R. Kleckner 133 



Friends of the Earth 



Andrea Durbin 134 



Brent Blackwelder, with attachments 138 



National Grange 144 



National Family Farm Coalition 146 



Agribusiness Council 147 



National Association of State Departments of Agriculture 148 



Luis Tellez K. to Charles J. O'Mara 153 



Jeff Lundberg to Senator Leahy 153 



Carl Schwensen and Winston Wilson to Senator Leahy 154 



Additional material submitted for the record 



Summary of agriculture private sector comments on NAFTA 155 



Questions from Senator Baucus and responses thereto 168 



(III) 



