Field Hearing to Review U.S. Agriculture Policy in Advance of the 2012 Farm Bill

Crown Expo Center Section A, Fayetteville, N.C.
| Jun 28, 2010 9:30am

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – On June 28, 2010, the House Agriculture Committee held a field hearing in Fayetteville, N.C., to review U.S. agriculture policy, as the Committee begins the process of writing the 2012 Farm Bill. The Agriculture Committee’s Chairman of the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture, Congressman Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.) chaired the hearing.

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Witnesses

Panel 1

Mr. Ronald Allen , row crop, timber, pork, poultry and beef producer, Fayetteville, North Carolina

Mr. Steven Burke , biofuels representative, Oxford, North Carolina

Mr. Frank Lee , corn, cotton, wheat, soybean and beef cattle producer, Raleigh, North Carolina

Mr. Allen McLaurin , cotton producer, Laurinburg, North Carolina

Panel 2

Mr. Billy Ray Hall , rural economic development representative, Raleigh, North Carolina

Mr. Randall Jones , electric cooperative representative, Red Springs, North Carolina

Mr. Tommy Porter , pork, beef and poultry producer, Concord, North Carolina

Mr. Dan Ward , peanut producer, Clarkton, North Carolina