6. Chemicals used should be checked an what they do to Land & food prodireed. 4. Depending trade سه deale hood is not Justice to reasonable. -even by Farmer is subsidized-Cast of product shaved be what all costs able to produce it. 8. Indrestry sets its Juice for what me for mast brey- do farmers get to sex for i, at they alllor buy. Farm Business onverted than active Farmer ascented © 200 Agri Becard created. C took a hear in planning. FORMULATION OF THE 1990 FARM BILL TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1989 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON WHEAT, SOYBEANS, AND FEED GRAINS, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Columbia City, IN. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 2 p.m. in the 4-H Center, 115 South Line Street, Columbia City, IN, Hon. Dan Glickman (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Jontz and Long. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. DAN GLICKMAN, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF KANSAS Mr. GLICKMAN. The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome you all to this hearing. My name is Dan Glickman and I am a Congressman from central Kansas. My hometown is Wichita and I have the privilege of chairing this Subcommittee on Wheat, Soybeans, and Feed Grains of the House Agriculture Committee and coming to the district of my friend and colleague Jill Long, a new member of the full Agriculture Committee and this subcommittee and we are delighted to be here. I understand it has been some time since you have had a congressional hearing in this district. This is a very important hearing because we are in the process now of really deciding what will go in the 1990 farm bill, both in terms of what should be the loan rate, and the target price and set-asides, CRP, conservation provisions as well as rural development issues and a whole slew of other things that you all are concerned with and everybody in America is concerned with as it relates to the strength of rural America and what our food and fiber policy ought to be. So I am delighted to be here. We were in Logansport this morning where we had a hearing in the district of a member of the subcommittee, Congressman Jim Jontz. It was an excellent hearing. We heard from nearly 20 witnesses and we got some good information to develop the issues. We will hold other hearings, for example, in Colorado, in the State of Montana, in Oregon during the latter part of the month of August. There are hearings being held in the South as well as in the Upper Midwest, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas. Then we will come back toward the end of this year and try to put these thoughts together and begin writing the new farm bill early next year. So you being in the heart of corn and soybean country, together with being a very important livestock producing area of this country, we really do want to hear what you have to say. So now without fur(139) ther adieu, I would like to call upon my colleague, distinguished member of this subcommittee Jill Long for any comments that she may have. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. JILL L. LONG, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF INDIANA Ms. LONG. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is certainly an honor for me to have Chairman Glickman here and Congressman Jim Jontz and it is also an honor for me to have all of you here in my home county. I think all of you know how dedicated I am to agriculture. I am a firm believer that foreign policy and trade policy of the future will be very much in large part agricultural policy because what we export in terms of agricultural commodities are very important to our Nation's economic strength. So I am very eager to hear what the farmers of northeastern Indiana have to say and I am anxious to take that message back to Washington as we get ready to draft the 1990 farm bill. Thank you. Mr. GLICKMAN. I might mention before I introduce Mr. Jontz for his comments, Jill Long has only been on the Committee on Agriculture about 4 months. She has already been instrumental in offering a major amendment to the reauthorization of our commodities futures laws done last week, which effectively puts a lot more control on the Futures Exchanges and tries to prohibit them from taking emergency actions which would distort the marketplace for, in this case, soybeans and perhaps corn but it could be for anything else and she very tenaciously took on this amendment and frankly took on the Futures Exchanges and-have historically not been known as meek, quiet, politically passive groups of people—and she took them on and won and that is something that is very unusual for being so young in this job. And you all ought to be proud of her for that. Now, I call on Mr. Jontz, a member from the Fourth Congressional District. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. JIM JONTZ, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF INDIANA Mr. JONTZ. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to begin by welcoming you to Indiana. It really is an honor for us to have you in our State. Chairman Dan Glickman will play a major role in the details of the 1990 farm bill and it is an opportunity for us here in Indiana to have input directly into his thinking and the thinking of our subcommittee overall. And I really want to express appreciation for your willingness to come to our State to conduct this hearing. I also want to acknowledge the very capable representation that this district has in the Congress on the Agriculture Committee with Jill Long. She has, indeed, played a major role in the legislation that we have just completed considering in committee on the CFTC reauthorization. I know that she will play a major role with regard to the farm bill next year as well. It is our job to see that the farmers of our State have a voice in Washington, that the concerns of the producers in Indiana, the family farmers who are the |