Panel Moderator: 

 Richard D. Lamm 

 Governor of Colorado 



Governor Herschler, continuing on the same theme 

 that you are talking about in your welcome, and Gov- 

 ernor Atiyeh, thank you for your warm welcome. 



The history of the West is a history of boom and 

 bust. We're booming one minute and we're busted the 

 next. We saw this in Colorado where Exxon promised 

 us a tiger in our tank and we ended up with a white 

 elephant in our backyard. This has really been the 

 whole history of the West. We have had phenomenal 

 economic development one minute, only to be left with 

 a hole in the ground the next 



The one exception to this, the one sustaining econ- 

 omy in the West, has been agriculture It has been 

 the glue that has held our economies together. When 

 silver busted, when they signed the repeal of the Sher- 

 man Silver Purchase Act, when a depression hit, when 

 economic cycles, in fact, hit the West so much harder 

 than other places, when those happened, in fact, it 

 has always been the yearly sustaining yield of agricul- 

 ture that has bailed us out 



Unlike the copper in Utah or in fvlontana, or oil 

 shale in Colorado, agriculture comes up every year It 

 is a yearly harvest as opposed to a one-time harvest, 

 and I think that is why it is very appropriate that the 

 program, in fact, deals with food 



Dotty and I spent some time in India about 15 years 

 ago, and there is nothing that gets a person's atten- 

 tion like stepping over starving and dying people for 

 lack of food. 



It is an appropriate topic, and we have some excel- 

 lent panelists to deal with it. A Nobel Peace Prize 



recipient, a leading agri-business and transportation 

 executive and the president of a leading research 

 organization, who we will start with. 



Dr. Emery Castle is president of Resources for the 

 Future At Resources for the Future he recently 

 announced a new project on food and agriculture He 

 was previously dean of the graduate school of Oregon 

 State University and an agricultural economist. We are 

 honored to have him, Dr. Castle. . . 



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