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hearing schedule
Hearing/Meeting: Conservation
  Full Committee Hearing
 
Date & Time Wednesday, June 7 2006
9:00 AM
Location Russell-328-A
   
Description Review of current agricultural conservation programs

Audio replay of 2 hr, 30 min hearing (note: Senate votes occur 1 hour into the hearing - then hearing resumes 16 mins later.)
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Witnesses & Opening Statements
   
Panel 1
     
  Bruce Knight
Chief
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service

  John Johnson
Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs
USDA's Farm Service Agency

Panel 2
     
  Dr. James Earl Kennamer
Senior Vice President for Conservation Programs
National Wild Turkey Federation

  Olin Sims
President-Elect
National Association of Conservation Districts

  James O. Andrew
Andrew Farms
On behalf of the Iowa Soybean Association

  Randall Spronk
Chair
National Pork Producers Council Environmental Policy Committee

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