“TIME CHANGE --- Concentration in Agriculture and an Examination of the JBS/Swift Acquisitions”

May 5, 2008
NOTICE OF SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING
TIME CHANGE TO 2:30 p.m.

The hearing on "Concentration in Agriculture and an Examination of the JBS/Swift Acquisitions" scheduled by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights for Wednesday, May 7, 2008 in the Senate Dirksen Office Building, Room 226 will begin at 2:30 p.m. rather than the previously scheduled time of 2:00 p.m.

Chairman Kohl will preside.

By order of the Chairman

Witness List

Hearing before the
Senate Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights

on

"Concentration in Agriculture and an Examination of the JBS/Swift Acquisitions"

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226
2:00 p.m.

Panel I:

Douglas Ross
Special Counsel for Agriculture
Antitrust Division
Department of Justice
Washington, DC

Peter Carstensen
Professor of Law
University of Wisconsin Law School
Madison, WI

Panel II:

Wesley M. Batista
CEO, North America
JBS Swift and Company
Greeley, CO

Steve Hunt
CEO
U.S. Premium Beef
Kansas City, MO

Bill Bullard
CEO
Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund
United Stockgrowers of America
Billings, MT

Dillon M. Feuz, Ph.D.
Department of Economics
Utah State University
Logan, UT

Michael Stumo
Legal Counsel
Organization for Competitive Markets
Lincoln, NE

David Balto
Senior Fellow
Center for American Progress
Washington, DC