Full Committee

Ensuring Competitive and Open Agricultural Markets: Are Meat Packers Abusing Market Power?

Type: Full Committee Field Hearing

Date: Friday, August 23rd, 2002

Time: 01:30pm

Location: Sioux Falls Convention Center, Sioux Falls, SD

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Member Statements

Senator Patrick Leahy

D, VT

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Panel I

John Thune

United States Representative (South Dakota - At Large)

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Panel II

Douglas Ross

Special Counsel on Agriculture, Antitrust Division

Department of Justice

Washington, DC

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Panel III

Peter C. Carstensen

George H. Young-Bascom Professor of Law

Wisconsin Law School

Madison, WI

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Tim Bierman

Independent Pork Producer

Larrabee, IA

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Tom Connelley

Independent Cattle Producer, Dealer, and Feeder

Belle Fourche, SD

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Sara Lilygren

Vice President for Legislative and Public Affairs

American Meat Institute

Arlington, VA

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James Van Der Pol

Independent Hog Producer

Kerkhoven, MN

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Bob Mack

Independent Cattle Producer and Feeder

Watertown, SD

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