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VtCE CHAlKMAN 

 COLLIN C ^(TtnSON MINNESOTA 

 KABOlD L VOUCMEfl, MlSSOUfll 

 JILL L LONG INDIANA 

 CALVIN W OOOlEY CALIFOnNLA 

 OAVIO UlNCE WINNESOTA 

 EAAL POMEROT worth DAKOTA 

 CHAflLIE ROSE NOATM CAROLINA 

 GUNN ENGLISH OKLAHOMA 



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•ILL SAB^ALIUS TtXAS 

 CAfTT A CONOTT CALIfOftNIA 

 TMOMAS J MJtLOW III KENTUCKY 

 SANEOftO D BISHOP Jft GEOHGtA 

 BENNIE G T>«OMPSON MiSSlSStPn 

 MT WILLIAMS WOMTANA 



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Statement of Congressman Bill Emerson 



Before the House Agriculture 



General Farm Commodities Subcommittee 



September 28, 1993 



SILL EMEH50N MISSOURI 



RANKING MINORirr MEMBER 

 ROBERT f (BOB! SMITH OREGON 

 LARRT COMBEST TEXAS 

 BILL BARRErr NEBRASKA 

 JIM NUSSLE IOWA 

 JOHN A BOEhner Ohio 

 THOMAS W EWING ILLINOIS 

 JOHN T DOOLITTLt CAIKORNIA 

 JAV DICKET ARKANSAS 

 NICK SMITH MICHIGAN 



PAT ROBERTS KANSAS 

 Ex Officio MEMBER 



NEIL P MOSEMAN 



MINORITY CONSULTANT 



Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank you for holding this important forum on a crucial 

 matter facing the American farm industry. In Missouri alone. 1993 has been a year that has 

 plagued farmers to historic proportions. Missouri's farmers and ranchers have experienced 

 unprecedented flood waters which have submerged entire farm communities and ravaged 

 surrounding crop lands creating economic disaster and billions of dollars in losses for 

 thousands of residents and their local communities. Mr. Chairman, the devastation is 

 shocking and yet, heavy rains and flooding in some areas continue. 



Indeed, the disaster situation in Southern Missouri has been a tremendous contrast. 

 While the record flood waters of the "mighty" Mississippi River have overwhelmed fields, 

 farms, and communities alike, drought conditions have placed other areas of Missouri's 

 southern farming region at great risk. 



Crop losses in Missouri -- particularly Southern Missouri -- are at dramatic levels. 

 Worse yet, many Missouri communities are anticipating more flood waters with nothing more 

 than destroyed or partially destroyed levees and dikes to protect them. Clearly, the need 

 for further federal emergency monies and increased disaster relief funds is both desperate 



