CONTENTS 



PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1993 

 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1993 



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Hon. J. Robert Kerrey, U.S. Senator from Nebraska, presiding 1 



Hon. Tom Harkin, U.S. Senator from Iowa 4 



CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES 



Kenneth C. Clayton, Acting Administrator, Marketing Program, Agricultural 

 Marketing Service, USDA; accompanied by Dr. Kenneth Evans, H. Dieter 



Hoinkes, and Alex Simelfaub, all with USDA 5 



Prepared statement 7 



Dietrich Schmidt, president, American Seed Trade Association (ASTA); ac- 

 companied by Rob Robinson, executive vice president, J.C. Robinson Seed 



Company, and chairman, Intellectual Property Rights Committee, ASTA 10 



Prepared statement and material submitted for the record 13 



Donald E. Latham, farmer and seed producer, Latham Seed Company, Alex- 

 ander, IA 24 



Vance H. Watson, executive vice president, Association of Official Seed Certi- 

 fying Agencies, Mississippi State, MS 26 



David F. Svik, president, Association of American Seed Control Officials, 

 Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Lincoln, NE 28 



David S. Douches, research geneticist and potato breeder, representing Na- 

 tional Potato Council 29 



Prepared statement 32 



Robert F Barnes, executive vice president, American Society of Agronomy, 



with material submitted for the record 37 



Bryce Neidig, president, Nebraska Farm Bureau 43 



Becky Winterboer, farmer, Milford, IA 46 



Prepared statement 48 



Hope Shand, Research Director, Rural Advancement Foundation Internation- 

 al, Pittsboro, NC 49 



Prepared statement 51 



APPENDIX 



Letters 



The Potato Association of America to Senator Daschle 67 



The National Cotton Council to Senator Daschle 67 



Statements submitted for the record 



The International Association of Plant Breeders for the Protection of 



Plant Varieties (ASSINSEL) 68 



The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants 



(UPOV) 69 



The National Council of Commercial Plant Breeders 70 



Pioneer Hi-Bred International 72 



The Institute for Agricultural Biodiversity 76 



Frito-Lay, Inc 81 



The Asgrow Seed Company 83 



Questions submitted by Senator Kerrey and responses thereto from USDA 



Agricultural Marketing Service 89 



Reprint of S. 1406 102 



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