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 USDA-APHIS PUBLIC FORUM: ALFALFA DRAFT EIS

 TAKEN AT THE GOLDEN NUGGET HOTEL & CASINO

 129 FREMONT STREET

 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89101

 ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2010

 At 11:05 A.M.
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 1 P R O C E E D I N G S

 2 MR. GREGOIRE: We're going to go ahead and

 3 start with today's session if you folks will grab a

 4 seat.

 5 I'd like to say good morning and welcome you

 6 the public morning and U.S. Department of

 7 draft Environmental Impact Statement. My name is

 8 Michael Gregoir. I'm the deputy administrator for

 9 Biotechnology Regulatory Services Unit in the U.S.

10 Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health

11 Inspection Service.

12 I'm going to say a few things about the

13 EIS and then talk a little bit about the meeting

14 logistics.

15 First with respect to the draft EIS, the

16 Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health

17 Inspection Service has prepared the draft

18 statement that evaluates the potential environmental

19 effects of deregulating alfalfa that's been

20 engineered to be resistant to the herbicide

21 known commercially as Roundup.

22 The genetically engineered alfalfa, or GE

23 alfalfa, is commonly referred to as Roundup Ready

24 Alfalfa. In the EIS, the GE alfalfa variety is

25 to as glyphosate tolerant or GT alfalfa.
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 1 In preparing this document, APHIS considered

 2 and evaluated two alternatives in the draft EIS. One

 3 alternative is to grant non-regulated status to two

 4 lines of Roundup Ready Alfalfa and the other

 5 is to maintain the status of this alfalfa as a

 6 article.

 7 APHIS analyzed these alternatives with

 8 to their potential impacts on gene flow between

 9 Ready Alfalfa and non-GE alfalfa on weed development,

10 wildlife species, and on species with special status.

11 The draft EIS also analyzed the alternatives

12 with regard to their impact on herbicide use, plant

13 species, socioeconomics, human health and safety,

14 use and production practices, and physical

15 The Roundup Ready Alfalfa draft EIS

16 two aspects of the National Environmental Policy Act

17 implementation. One of those is the analysis and

18 consideration of potential impacts of the proposed

19 federal action, in this case the decision on whether

20 not to deregulate. And the second is consideration

21 range of alternatives.

22 APHIS prepared this draft EIS to comply with

23 the February 2007 judgment and order by the United

24 States District Court for the northern district of

25 California. In that case, the court did not overturn
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 1 APHIS' conclusion regarding the safety of this

 2 for food and feed purposes, but rather concluded that

 3 the agency had not adequately documented potential

 4 lack of potential environmental impacts of its

 5 Based on the impact analysis in the draft

 6 APHIS has preliminarily concluded that there is no

 7 significant impact on the environment due to granting

 8 non-regulating status to Roundup Ready Alfalfa.

 9 The draft EIS is not a final decision on the

10 regulatory status of Roundup Ready Alfalfa. APHIS

11 consider all public comments submitted during the

12 comment period before finalizing the environmental

13 impact statement and making any final decisions

14 regarding the regulatory status of the Roundup Ready

15 Alfalfa. The comment period on the draft EIS is

16 60 days, and comments are due to the agency by

17 February 16th, 2010.

18 So turning now to the logistics of the

19 we're holding this meeting to solicit comments from

20 public on the draft EIS. With me is Andie Huberty,

21 of the principal authors of the EIS. We also have

22 staff members -- Rebecca Stankiewicz-Gabel and Dave

23 Reinhold and Mike Pena from USDA -- that are here.

24 We're providing speakers two minutes to

25 their information. If you have not signed up and
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 1 to make a comment, you can just sign in on the sign-

 2 sheet back there. We'll be sure we give you the

 3 opportunity to address us.

 4 Rebecca will be our timer and will let you

 5 when your two minutes are up. We appreciate everyone

 6 being polite and responding civilly. In order to

 7 everyone the opportunity to speak, we limited the

 8 allotted time to two minutes.

 9 When your name is called, please come

10 to the front of the room to the microphone here. And

11 you would begin by stating your -- stating and

12 your name for our court reporter over here, your

13 comments will be part of the official administrative

14 record, and stating the organization that you're

15 affiliated with if you're representing an

16 And after you've done all that, we'll turn the timer

17 You can also provide us with written

18 There's a table at the back there. If you need any

19 or guidance on how to do that, the staff can help you

20 with that.

21 If we have time after our speakers have

22 finished with their remarks, and it looks like we

23 we'll have an informal poster session at the back of

24 room, and our staff will be available to talk to you

25 answer your questions. And the purpose of that
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 1 session is to answer clarifying questions. Those

 2 conversations are not part of the record.

 3 So with that, I think we'll go ahead and

 4 proceed. If we have additional large groups of

 5 come in, we may go through the same procedure a

 6 more times to accommodate folks who may be on

 7 schedules. So with that, we'll start with the first

 8 speaker. And I apologize in advance that I may get

 9 these names messed up, so what I may do is just say

10 first name and last initial. And the first speaker

11 Jack K.

12 JACK KUECHLER: If you had pronounced my

13 name correctly, you'd be a relative. My name is Jack

14 Kuechler and my last name is spelled K-u-e-c-h-l-e-r,

15 and I'm with Hastings Island Ranch Company.

16 First of all, I'd like to thank APHIS for

17 the hard work that you've done putting this together.

18 Not only the EIR (phonetic), but this meeting, so

19 you very much.

20 My family farms approximately 2000 acres.

21 about an hour east of San Francisco in the

22 Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Of that, we have

23 approximately 200 acres currently in Roundup Ready

24 That hay is primarily sold to the dairy market, the

25 cattle industry, and retail horse industry.
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 1 Historically on our ground we have grown

 2 tomatoes, sugar beets, asparagus, grapes, and a

 3 of crops. We have found that growing Roundup Ready

 4 has been very, very beneficial to us in the last few

 5 years. We support the conclusion of APHIS' EIR to

 6 non-regulated status to Roundup Ready Hay and to get

 7 back on the market.

 8 There are several reasons that this has been

 9 such a great crop for us. One is the weed issue.

10 Having Roundup Ready Hay allows us to get great

11 of hay from the get-go which reduces the weed

12 significantly in those fields which then allows us to

13 use what I would consider a much more environmentally

14 friendly and kind mix of chemicals throughout the

15 of the stand. And I think that's just very important

16 for what we do on our ranch and the environment in

17 general.

18 Another issue that I think is very important

19 that has come up through this process is the idea of

20 coexistence between Roundup Ready and non-Roundup

21 varieties.

22 We grow both right next to one another. We

23 have not seen any difference of gene flow between one

24 crop to the other. We're out in those fields on a

25 basis observing things. We just don't see it
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 1 so -- and just to add on to that, Dan Putnam, who is

 2 here and will probably speak, has done a lot of work

 3 that, and he has a 2005 publication for that.

 4 MR. GREGOIRE: Thank you.

 5 Our next speaker is Walter B.

 6 WALTER BRINKERHOFF: My name is Walter

 7 Brinkerhoff, B-r-i-n-k-e-r-h-o-f-f. I'm from

 8 Nevada. I'm a farmer there. Lovelock is a small

 9 of about 29,000 acres. It's all flood irrigated.

10 source of our water comes down a river of over 200

11 miles. During that 200 miles, there's a lot of

12 opportunity for about every kind of weed you can

13 to get into the water which then ends up on our farm.

14 We irrigate through open ditches and canals,

15 and again, those ditches -- ditch banks are a great

16 source of weeds. So weeds in our field is a never

17 ending battle. We spent -- on our own farm, we spend

18 tens of thousands of dollars every year in an effort

19 control weeds.

20 Some of the things that we have to control

21 some noxious weeds such as Russian Knapweed, Tall

22 Whitetop, and grass such as G grass and foxtail. On

23 farm, we farm about 5500 acres of irrigated farm or

24 cropland. 2500 acres of that was in hay last year

25 about a hundred and fifty in Roundup Ready Alfalfa.
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 1 Also when Roundup Ready was released, we

 2 raising Roundup Ready Alfalfa seed and last year we

 3 about 650 acres of alfalfa seed. During that time,

 4 also raised more than 200 acres of conventional

 5 seed. We also have neighbors in the area that raised

 6 conventional alfalfa seed, and we've found that we've

 7 been able to maintain a minimum isolation for all

 8 fields on our own farm with our neighbors. We've had

 9 much greater isolation as required and did not have

10 problems.

11 My grandfather began raising alfalfa seeds

12 Lovelock in about 1950, and I believe we've had seed

13 our farm every year since then. Because of the

14 situation last year and not being able to plant and

15 this injunction and losing our Roundup Ready Alfalfa

16 seed contracts for this next year, this probably will

17 the first year in 60 years where we won't have any

18 alfalfa seed on our farm.

19 The loss of that 650 acres amounts to

20 around a million dollars of gross income to our

21 which is very significant. We have found Roundup

22 Alfalfa Hay to be a very excellent tool in --

23 in stand establishments. We use less chemicals. We

24 a better job controlling now. It has been a great

25 marketing tool for our -- those where we send our hay
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 1 California. We encourage that you make sure this

 2 process gets done so we can have this tool and any

 3 tools that are coming behind it. Thanks.

 4 MR. GREGOIRE: Thank you.

 5 Our next speaker is Dennis Stowell.

 6 DENNIS STOWELL: Close. I'm Dennis Stowell,

 7 S-t-o-w-e-l-l. I'm here today representing the

 8 of Utah and the executive branch of Utah. I bring

 9 readings from Utah Governor, Gary Herbert, and from

10 Commission of Agricultural, Leonard Black.

11 Governor Herbert has sent his copies in a

12 letter that I'd like to read into the record, and

13 I'll leave a couple of copies in the box.

14 He says, "Our citizens enjoy a wonderful

15 lifestyle, possible in a large part, because food is

16 abundant and priced at very reasonable levels. No

17 nation or society has spent so little of their money

18 food. This allows our citizens to enjoy many other

19 products and additional recreational, educational,

20 cultural opportunities.

21 "One of the most important factors that

22 our farmers to be so productive is new crop varieties

23 developed by science. The continued benefits of

24 scientific improved crops are essential to maintain

25 abundant food supply for the future.
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 1 "The USDA has now completed the

 2 Impact Statement and has concluded that alfalfa

 3 genetically engineered GE tolerate to the herbicide

 4 glyphosate is safe and will have no significant

 5 on human health and the environment.

 6 "Biotechnology is bringing production and

 7 environmental benefits to mankind. Such products

 8 reduce long-term use of herbicides, pesticides, and

 9 reduce fuel usage on our farms. The potential

10 for food, water, soil, and air are significant.

11 "I encourage USDA-APHIS to approve the

12 deregulation of the two lines of GE alfalfa as

13 for use by our farmers.

14 "Sincerely, Gary R. Herbert, Governor."

15 Thank you for this opportunity to testify.

16 MR. GREGOIRE: Mr. Stowell, I understand you

17 also have a statement to make on behalf of the Utah

18 legislature.

19 DENNIS STOWELL: I do. Again, I'm Dennis

20 Stowell. That's spelled S-t-o-w-e-l-l. I live in

21 Parowan, Iron County, Utah and I hold the position of

22 Utah State Senator for District 28 in the Utah

23 legislature.

24 In that capacity I represent all of Miller,

25 Beaver, Iron, Garfield, and Kane counties and the
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 1 eastern part of Washington County, all located in the

 2 southwest portion of the state of Utah.

 3 I co-chair the Utah Water Development

 4 Commission, the Natural Resources Environment Joint

 5 Interim Committee, the Natural Resources Joint

 6 Appropriation Committee, and I also chair the AG

 7 Resources Environment Standing Committee of the Utah

 8 Senate.

 9 On January 12th of this year, Natural

10 Joint Appropriations Subcommittee invited Dr. Ralph

11 Whitesides and two other professors from Utah State

12 University located in Logan, Utah to present

13 before the Natural Resources Joint Appropriations

14 Subcommittee regarding Roundup Ready Alfalfa.

15 Following a thorough discussion and a

16 and answer period, the subcommittee passed the

17 resolution: "Motion: Representative Draxler moved

18 the chairs of the subcommittee be asked by the

19 to write a letter to the correct agencies in support

20 specifically of Roundup Ready Hay seed and also in

21 support in general for technologically advanced

22 that increase yields and improve the agricultural

23 industry.

24 "Motion: Representative Barrus moved to

25 substitute motion to include everything contained in
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 1 Representative Draxler's motion, in addition to

 2 the position that the injunction against Roundup

 3 Alfalfa should be removed. The substitute motion

 4 unanimously."

 5 So I'm here to testify that from Utah's

 6 standpoint, there's a lot of support for releasing

 7 product back into the market. It's done a great job

 8 Utah. We appreciate the work you've done on this

 9 product and look forward to getting it back in the

10 market. Thank you.

11 MR. GREGOIRE: Mr. Stowell, you have one

12 additional set of remarks you're making on behalf of

13 Farms.

14 DENNIS STOWELL: I do.

15 Thank you. I'm Dennis Stowell, S-t-o-w-e-l16 I live in Parowan, Iron County, Utah and I'm also in

17 the -- involved in -- I serve as president of HA

18 Inc., a family owned type C corporation based in

19 Parowan, Utah.

20 HA Farms, Inc., is in the cattle, sheep, and

21 porridge business, primarily alfalfa hay. HA Farms

22 about 10 percent of its Alfalfa A for its cattle and

23 sheep. The balance, about 90 percent, is sold in two

24 main markets. Areas located in Utah, Nevada, and

25 California. And for export, primarily to Japan
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 1 the California Port of Long Beach.

 2 In 2006, HA Farms Inc. planted Roundup Ready

 3 Alfalfa on some land close to a lake. Historically,

 4 planted conventional varieties in that area, and

 5 one year, grass would overcome the stand. It was

 6 difficult to control the grass. It's called alkali

 7 grass.

 8 It's also very expensive to clean it up with

 9 Velpar primarily, and it still didn't result in a

10 clean stand. It would stunt the hay. When we

11 Roundup Ready Hay, we sprayed it one time when it was

12 about an inch tall. It was clean for about three

13 following that one spray.

14 When a hay buyer came and looked at the

15 who had purchased hay from that field before, he

16 not believe how clean it was. This hay went through

17 export, and there was no problem exporting it to

18 They were aware that it was Roundup Ready Hay.

19 What a great boom to the environment. Use

20 much less chemical, a chemical that's inexpensive,

21 that's benign, that has no residual, and results in a

22 much smaller carbon footprint.

23 Let me make a brief comment on the EIS. It

24 talks about a 10 percent bloom. We do not allow our

25 to get 10 percent bloom. We cut it in the bud stage.
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 1 If we have a weather event that interferes, we find

 2 it's better to cut it anyway and have it bleached a

 3 little bit than to -- with a higher test of the

 4 We appreciate this opportunity to present to

 5 you and I encourage you to release this product.

 6 MR. GREGOIRE: Our next speaker is Mr. Kerry

 7 Gibson.

 8 KERRY GIBSON: Thank you.

 9 I appreciate the opportunity to be here as

10 well. My name is Kerry Gibson. I am a fifth

11 dairy and crop farmer from Ogden, Utah which is in

12 northern part of the state.

13 I live there with my beautiful wife,

14 and my six young children: Kayden, Kassidy, Kendall,

15 Katherine, Korianne, and Kimble. I know. It sounded

16 like a good idea at the time. But we are very -- I

17 my family and I love our community and I love being

18 agriculture. I get great satisfaction from being a

19 of this food and fiber production system that we

20 We have a goal on our farm and that is to be

21 true environmentalists. My brother, who farms with

22 also has a large family and we love making sure that

23 make plans to pass that farm down from generation to

24 generation, so we keep that paramount in all of our

25 decisions. With that being said, we are strong
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 1 proponents of technology in general, and this one in

 2 particular.

 3 Does that mean we give all technological

 4 advances a pass? No way. Absolutely not. After

 5 months, if not years of research, we find the

 6 that we think will work for us and make environmental

 7 difference to our surroundings.

 8 One of the difficulties we had is that after

 9 significant costs of switching to Roundup Ready

10 we were then forced to switch back and that was a

11 cost to our operation. It's ironic that the

12 was in response to a producer claiming an economic

13 when its institution then resulted in severe economic

14 loss to many other producers. And in the end when

15 economic loss occurs to farmers, it occurs then

16 to consumers.

17 As someone who has used this product, we

18 seen increase yield, quality, and consistency which

19 important because most of that product goes into our

20 dairy group which then produces milk for sale

21 the region. While not perfect in my mind, I agree

22 the overall statements of the EIS, and I'm grateful

23 technology companies as well as farmers for their

24 dedication in pursuing this issue.

25 Most of all, I'm thankful for the good work
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 1 behalf of this agency and seeing you as a partner

 2 us as we move forward to make sure and produce a safe

 3 and affordable and abundant food supply for the

 4 in our great country and the world.

 5 Thank you.

 6 MR. GREGOIRE: Mr. Gibson, you were making a

 7 statement also on behalf of the state leaders.

 8 KERRY GIBSON: Yes.

 9 Thank you. Again, my name is Kerry W.

10 I also serve in my other life as a state

11 from the Sixth District in northern Utah. I chair

12 all the committees that Senator Stowell talked about

13 served on them on the house side, and so have had the

14 opportunity to have -- to receive testimony on this

15 issue in our joint appropriations committee last

16 I want to add my endorsement to the letters that he

17 presented on that behalf.

18 Also, I serve as a board member of an

19 organization called State Agriculture and Rural

20 This is a group of AG committee chairs and rural

21 from across the country and all 50 states.

22 We just recently had our national committee

23 meeting and conference in Orlando, Florida last week.

24 flew directly from there to here in order to make

25 comments. And it's quite a diverse group as you can
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 1 imagine. Committee chairs from all the legislatures

 2 from throughout the country could be quite diverse,

 3 if they happen to share the same similar committee

 4 assignments.

 5 But there was a resolution introduced at

 6 meeting and thoroughly debated by the delegates of

 7 meeting. And I'm proud to present that resolution to

 8 you as one that passed nearly unanimously, and I'm

 9 grateful for the good work on behalf of those

10 members. I'd like to read that quickly.

11 "State Agriculture and Rural Leaders

12 resolution passed -- excuse me, passed resolution on

13 Roundup Ready Alfalfa.

14 "Whereas, weed control is very important to

15 modern agriculture and Roundup Ready Alfalfa was

16 introduced into the market in 2005;

17 "Whereas, the required EIS has been

18 and made public; and

19 "Whereas, Roundup Ready Alfalfa has been

20 suitable by the USDA to be reintroduced and

21 if certain requirements for setbacks and other

22 are met; and

23 "Whereas, future efficiencies in

24 can be made by using genetically modified organisms

25 as Roundup Ready Seed, low lignin and drought
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 1 varieties, perennial wheat, and other new technology;

 2 and.

 3 "Whereas, USDA-APHIS is accepting comments

 4 until February 16, 2010, regarding the release of

 5 Roundup Ready Alfalfa;

 6 "Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the

 7 Agricultural and Rural Leaders supports the release

 8 Roundup Ready Alfalfa with guidelines for its use;

 9 "Be it further resolved that SARL supports

10 development, thorough evaluation, and release of

11 GMO products which could increase the productivity,

12 efficiency, and/or nutritional quality of other

13 agricultural products."

14 Thank you very much for the opportunities to

15 comment.

16 MR. GREGOIRE: Thank you.

17 And, again, the speakers that have read

18 prepared statements or resolutions like that into the

19 record, if you can leave us with a copy, we very much

20 appreciate that.

21 Next speaker is Jay Dow.

22 JAY DOW: Thank you.

23 My name is Jay Dow, D-o-w. I farm with my

24 in northeastern California. I wanted to make some

25 comments based on my personal knowledge and
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 1 I grow alfalfa seed, Roundup Ready and

 2 conventional. I'm also a cattle rancher and grow

 3 crops including Roundup Ready corn. I want to talk

 4 about the process when I began to grow Roundup Ready

 5 seed. There was strict adherence to the rules and

 6 regulations including isolations and prior crop

 7 This was initiated by who was under contract

 8 with us and also verified initially and then also

 9 annually by the California Crop and Improvement

10 Association who did the certification on these seeds.

11 Also, I want to say that to grow alfalfa

12 it takes years of planning in advance to meet the

13 isolation requirements and the prior crop history

14 requirements.

15 I have been on hold since this process for a

16 thousand days now approximately, and I urge you to

17 expedite the conclusion of this process, that we can

18 have a timely process. It's caused some economic

19 problems for me and lost opportunity to grow a higher

20 value crop because of this process. I've essentially

21 been on hold.

22 Also, I want to talk about the environmental

23 considerations a little bit here. I practice what I

24 believe are good practices. And with Roundup Ready

25 crops I'm less reliant on other herbicides that may
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 1 a more undesirable effect on the environment.

 2 I want to use an example. I do farm in

 3 California, in northeastern California. For a large

 4 part, earthworms have disappeared from ground farming

 5 California. I have earthworms and I want to keep

 6 And by having Roundup as a choice versus other types

 7 pesticides that may have a dilatory effect, I think

 8 that's going to help my long-term sustainability as a

 9 farmer and my long-term soil health.

10 One last comment is I also farm extra

11 area, and we have a high density in population of

12 fowl, game birds, migratory. These include Long

13 Sandhill Crane. I want to keep them nesting on my

14 property. I support the preferred alternative.

15 Thank you.

16 MR. GREGOIRE: Thank you.

17 Our next speaker is Erik Freese.

18 ERIK FREESE: Hello. Erik Freese. F-r-e-e19 is my last name. I'm a farmer out of northern

20 California, Dixon-Davis area, and the majority of my

21 alfalfa goes to the dairy industry. I consider

22 very forward thinking progressive farmer. My track

23 record consists of trying new techniques, developing

24 some interesting concepts that have turned into

25 day-to-day practical techniques on the farm.
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 1 Roundup Ready corn allowed me to use

 2 conservation tillage by not having to work the ground

 3 like my grandfather did. It allowed me to reduce my

 4 fuel costs, water cost, herbicides, et cetera.

 5 Basically, it allowed me some exceptional options.

 6 Roundup Ready Alfalfa has taken this benefit

 7 step further. My employees are safer, my fields are

 8 cleaner, the price is better, herbicide use is less,

 9 I've never had any loads rejected due to noxious

10 the end user requests these fields, and those aren't

11 best parts. My fields will stay in production longer

12 which benefits the environment.

13 I'm a farmer by trade, but first and

14 I'm a businessman. This is how I make a living.

15 in this business who is going to invest time, money,

16 resources in growing Roundup Ready Alfalfa is going

17 cut the alfalfa at 10 percent bloom or well before

18 That's just simple economics. That's just good

19 business.

20 My dad is the only one that I know of that

21 doesn't really like Roundup Ready Alfalfa. We have

22 about 1500 head of sheep and he likes the alfalfa

23 little bit of grass in it. Since Roundup Ready

24 I've had to find him alfalfa elsewhere than on my

25 As I stated earlier, I'm a forward thinker
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 1 it's really difficult for me or anyone in this

 2 to have had the future of alfalfa four years ago and

 3 be forced to live in the past, so please continue to

 4 fight.

 5 Thank you.

 6 MR. GREGOIRE: Next speaker is Dave Wheeler.

 7 DAVE WHEELER: Hello. My name is Dave

 8 I'm with farmers from central California. We farm

 9 acres of farmland of which 2400 acres is alfalfa and

10 acres is planted to Roundup Ready. I'm not a real

11 public speaker, so I'm talking from the heart here,

12 we really like the concept of the Roundup Ready

13 because we use less chemicals, we get a better

14 Our market is for feed store hay, and the

15 store person is the horse person who is really fussy

16 they really want the cleaner hay, so that's why we

17 you to go ahead and get the Roundup Ready going

18 The ground that I have in Roundup Ready Hay

19 I didn't have to put dormant spray on it like I had

20 do last month. There's no weeds out there right now

21 the conventional hay, but I have to put the

22 chemicals on to control the weeds that will come

23 And the Roundup Ready Hay is absolutely

24 and probably won't have to be sprayed because of the

25 effective weed control we've had.
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 1 Thank you for your time.

 2 MR. GREGOIRE: Thank you.

 3 The next speaker is Donald Collins.

 4 DONALD COLLINS: Good morning. My name is

 5 Donald Collins, C-o-l-l-i-n-s. I'm a director of

 6 water district that encompasses about 125,000 acres

 7 the Delta Water District. I'm also the director of

 8 EPG Group which encompasses about 100,001 milk cows

 9 the state of California.

10 I must speak to my specific experience. We

11 started with the Roundup Ready System in the '90s

12 corn. It's been a tool that we really used well. My

13 operation is about 17,000 acres. We have 41

14 sites that we deal with. A sensitive site is three

15 dwellings or more. Two sensitive sites is schools

16 one is an organic operation. We intentionally take

17 Roundup Ready System and place it by these facilities

18 because it's the most friendly and -- partnership

19 these facilities.

20 They've used Roundup on their facilities or

21 their homes and public/private life, so it's been a

22 great tool. Stewardship, we double and triple crop

23 ground every year, and without the Roundup Ready

24 we wouldn't be able to do that. Roundup has short25 vac dates, no residual, and so we've maximized our
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 1 facility by planting two and three crops per year

 2 is very unique in the San Joaquin Valley.

 3 Economically, what we grow and take to our

 4 dairies in self-consumption, if we take in weeds, we

 5 bring back weeds in the waste spring so we start a

 6 vicious cycle.

 7 With the Roundup Ready System, we've been

 8 to break that cycle in places and actually not have

 9 herbicide applications at all. And so from a dollar

10 standpoint, that's great; from an environmental

11 standpoint, that's great.

12 I guess the most important thing about the

13 Roundup Ready System is that the application is

14 extremely predictable and the results are extremely

15 predictable. We -- we will be there for a long time

16 then when there's ground use change to other

17 development, we don't worry about what we left

18 The exchange in ground to a different use is readily

19 available to us also.

20 Thank you very much.

21 MR. GREGOIRE: Our next speaker is Fred

22 FRED HOPKIN: My name is Fred Hopkin. I'm

23 Powell, Wyoming. I farm 3700 acres of irrigated land

24 which approximately 1,000 is in alfalfa seed.

25 Fifteen years ago I was on a flight from
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 1 to Washington with my pregnant wife, Carrie. She was

 2 suffering from a combination of motion sickness and

 3 morning. While she dealt with that, I sat next to

 4 and overheard a conversation going on in the aisle

 5 across from me with two men discussing the Internet.

 6 And towards the end of the flight, one man said to

 7 other, "The Internet is the wave of the future.

 8 who is anyone will be using it."

 9 I rolled my eyes at such a bold assertion

10 that would actually happen, but I think time has told

11 that that turned out, in fact, to be a prophecy. I

12 at the changes that have happened during the 14 and a

13 half years since my daughter was born some months

14 and I think it's safe to say we live in a time of

15 and rapid change.

16 The varieties of alfalfa seed that I grow

17 are essentially the same varieties that my father

18 30 years ago. We as an industry are lagging behind

19 other segments of agricultural. I would likewise

20 to make a bold assertion: Biotechnology is the wave

21 the future. Anyone who is anyone will be using it.

22 Today we're discussing only approval of one

23 trade of biotechnology. In essence we are where the

24 Internet was in 1995. But if we're going to compete

25 an industry, we need to have this technology so that
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 1 can move forward and be a viable concern in the

 2 I want to echo a comment made by Mr. Paul

 3 yesterday in our morning meeting. Mr. Frey is the

 4 president of Cal/West Seeds. And he said in essence

 5 that those who fought for this injunction three years

 6 ago may have done so with the intent -- with perhaps

 7 some adversarial intent.

 8 Well, this happened during the intervening

 9 three years ago. The industry has gotten organized,

10 has gotten unified, and we now have a plan to be able

11 take this technology and move forward with it. It's

12 thing to move forward quickly, it's another thing to

13 move forward carefully. We are now in that position

14 do so.

15 Thank you.

16 MR. GREGOIRE: Our next speaker is John

17 JOHN GROVER: My name is John Grover. I'm

18 Powell, Wyoming. I'm speaking in favor of the

19 deregulation of Roundup Ready Alfalfa. Personally

20 directly, the regulating and the time it took for EIS

21 do the process was very costly to my farm. I've got

22 25 years of experience raising alfalfa for seed plus

23 additional 25 years of growing alfalfa for porridge.

24 For three of those seed growing years, we

25 in excess of 200 acres of Roundup Ready Alfalfa. I
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 1 up in a community called Alfalfa, so I guess I maybe

 2 know something about alfalfa.

 3 Grover Farms is a family owned operation

 4 involving both my sons' family and mine. We farm 800

 5 plus irrigated acres of which 500 of those acres are

 6 alfalfa seed. Alfalfa seeds is our main crop and our

 7 main source of income.

 8 Raising Roundup Ready Alfalfa gave us a leg

 9 on weed control and also gave us a much needed boost

10 our profit margin. We have a real problem with

11 thistle and sweet clover. If yo have sweet clover in

12 your crops, it isn't worth anything.

13 The low rate of glyphosate applied nearly

14 once a year totally eliminates both the weeds and the

15 need for hand labor and there's little danger of

16 resistance because we don't use those products during

17 the rotation years which was malt barley.

18 Weed season alfalfa seed means seed loss in

19 getting them out. So it's a savings in both less

20 expenses and less seed loss with raising Roundup

21 Alfalfa over conventional varieties. A savings up to

22 and in excess of $100 an acre.

23 We had 300 acres of conventional seed acres,

24 over 200 acres Roundup Ready at the time of the

25 regulation. We did replace those Roundup Ready acres
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 1 with conventional seed acres. The problem was with

 2 300 acres of conventional seed we already had in, the

 3 contracts were set to expire that following year of

 4 EIS process. Cooler climates caused to plant for a

 5 short-term contract, one or two years, so our option

 6 to extend those contracts which we did. And due to

 7 of a fluke, we found out we weren't able to insure

 8 this past year which was the year that we had about

 9 second coldest summer on record plus a foot to 18

10 of snow at harvest time.

11 So as fate would have it, not being able to

12 insure those crops because of that fluke because of

13 time it took to do the EIS, we are probably going to

14 have about a $90,000 loss. 90,000 is a lot of money

15 a family farm.

16 The point is that regulation -- regulating

17 Roundup Ready Alfalfa in time involved EIS helped

18 producers, hay growers, processors, and other

19 and unnecessary.

20 Without deregulation, all the

21 and improvements in the pipeline in the future would

22 thwarted. Mankind cannot afford that scenario of the

23 crops as important as alfalfa to the food production.

24 MR. GREGOIRE: The next speaker is Dan

25 DAN PUTNAM: Hi. My name is Dan Putnam,
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 1 P-u-t-n-a-m. I'm an extension agronomist and

 2 researcher, extension agronomist at University of

 3 California, Davis and so I work with growers and hay

 4 producers all throughout the state of California and

 5 neighboring states.

 6 I'd like to make two points. First of all,

 7 commend APHIS for their extensive documentation that

 8 been done. There are a few minor points which I'd

 9 to correct perhaps in an e-mail type of or

10 electronically, but a few points I'd like to make

11 today.

12 First of all, on the resistant weed issue

13 was a substantial component of the EIS. This is a

14 well-known issue to weed scientists throughout all

15 herbicides. Roundup is no exception to that.

16 We have a recent publication which I didn't

17 in your EIS which might be -- you want to take a look

18 in 2009 on how to avoid weed shifts and weed

19 in alfalfa cropping systems, including crop rotation

20 rotation of herbicides and other kinds of issues. So

21 it's something we can address fairly readily. It's

22 unusual and it's not really that closely linked to GE

23 trades, although certainly expansion of the acreage

24 present a challenge from that standpoint. I think

25 an addressable issue.
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 1 The second point of this regards to

 2 markets for alfalfa hay. I'm going to regulate my

 3 comments to the hay industry, not seed. I think we

 4 to be careful to differentiate between seed and hay

 5 because seed is a very low percentage of the total

 6 alfalfa acreage. It's less than 2 percent.

 7 Since there are many growers that both GE

 8 and organic crops or G crops and export crops in the

 9 western United States, many cases they have been able

10 successfully grow even in neighboring fields and

11 differentiate between those markets over the past

12 years. You've seen that in practice.

13 There are some very simple steps that

14 can take to give their markets assurance that they

15 not be affected by the gene transfer issue, and I

16 those can be very, very effective with alfalfa hay.

17 Starting with, of course, the non-Roundup

18 seed at the outset. So I think there are --

19 co-existence is something that has been practiced for

20 the last five years, and I think it can be practiced

21 the future as well.

22 Thank you.

23 MR. GREGOIRE: Our next speaker is Jay

24 JAY PETTY: My name is Jay Petty. I farm in

25 Pasco, Washington approximately 1500 acres,
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 1 approximately half of those acres are alfalfa. I

 2 a multitude of vegetable and grain crops in rotation.

 3 In 2006 when Roundup Ready Alfalfa became available,

 4 planted 300 acres. The Roundup Ready System let me

 5 plant earlier in the summer, take a cutting that year

 6 weed free hay that I could not have done

 7 Weed control has been much better, cleaner

 8 fields with safer chemicals for the remainder of the

 9 stand. I have a large organic farming operation that

10 border so I'm very aware of organic issues and

11 to their needs. Roundup is the safest material that

12 can use next to an organic operation.

13 We also have an issue in my area of puncture

14 line in the edges of the alfalfa fields, and Roundup

15 Ready System is the only method we have to control

16 puncture line with.

17 MR. GREGOIRE: The next speaker is Scott

18 Bordelon.

19 SCOTT BORDELON: Good job with the name. My

20 name is Scott Bordelon. I'm a farmer in Hanford,

21 California, central San Joaquin Valley, and I grow

22 conventional and Roundup Ready seed alfalfa. I can

23 you they can co-exist through isolation, handling,

24 management practices, and third party validation.

25 Conventional production had generally cost
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 1 about $300 an acre over the Roundup Ready production.

 2 Roundup Ready Alfalfa reduces the use of more toxic

 3 herbicides, and using the toxic herbicides, I am

 4 to rotate with many crops. So with using Roundup

 5 Alfalfa, I can rotate with garlic, onions, tomatoes

 6 no problem.

 7 In addition, this crop rotation allows the

 8 productivity of my soils increase. Weed control is

 9 superior to using glyphosate which includes knocking

10 a lot of noxious weeds. In our area, our main

11 is dodder so using Roundup, it completely eliminates.

12 Roundup Ready Alfalfa was removed off the

13 market place almost three years ago and it has

14 critically hurt my operation. With a loss of $300 an

15 acre over approximately 1200 to 1500 acres, it adds

16 on a yearly basis, so I commend everything that

17 done and I really hope that we can get this thing

18 deregulated as soon as possible so I can capture some

19 that lost income.

20 Thank you.

21 MR. GREGOIRE: Before I introduce the next

22 speaker, I just wanted to mention that we had folks

23 the meeting, folks that are giving comments, so if

24 want to provide comments and have not signed in,

25 go to the table and sign in so we can be sure to call
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 1 you up to speak.

 2 Our next speaker is Mark Wagoner.

 3 MARK WAGONER: Hello. My name is Mark

 4 I'm an alfalfa seed farmer from Touchet, Washington.

 5 Last year I grew approximately 1100 acres of alfalfa

 6 seed for five major seed companies and none of it was

 7 Roundup Ready Alfalfa. I'm also on the board of

 8 directors of the National Alfalfa and Forage

 9 and I was the chairman of that group in 2007 when we

10 started working on co-existence strategy for Roundup

11 Ready Alfalfa.

12 My goal as the chairman of the group was to

13 biotech trades regulated -- deregulated into the

14 industry while trying to protect organic markets and

15 export markets, especially for alfalfa seeds.

16 Approximately 400 acres of my seed production in

17 is exported as a non-garment alfalfa and a lot of it

18 goes to Saudi Arabia so I do not want to loss that

19 market.

20 I think the strategy that Forage Genetics

21 put together for the co-existence has proven to be

22 pretty well. They have not even approached me to put

23 out Roundup Ready Alfalfa.

24 In my area we have a lot of seed fields

25 really close together. We have bees that travel a
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 1 or two miles to pollenate alfalfa, so they did not

 2 to put Roundup Ready Alfalfa in our area. And they

 3 that we grow a lot of alfalfa seed for the export

 4 market, and they didn't want to lose that market.

 5 So I think our cropping system in Touchet

 6 the way we handle it and the way Forage Genetics has

 7 worked with us on that, I think we proved that we can

 8 have co-existence in the United States agriculture

 9 biotech trades and the organic and export sensitive

10 markets.

11 I think the industry has come together in

12 last three years. The companies are working on a

13 where everybody can grow seeds that we need to grow.

14 do not want to lose any of our export markets, we do

15 want to lose the organic market, and I think we all

16 learn from this and work together and have everybody

17 the choice what they want to grow on their farm.

18 Thank you.

19 MR. GREGOIRE: The next speaker is Russell

20 Byerley.

21 RUSSELL BYERLEY: Russell Byerley, seed

22 from Touchet, Washington. We raised approximately

23 million pounds of alfalfa seed in the 2006 and 2007

24 year. Approximately half of that being Roundup Ready

25 and the other half being conventional. The Roundup
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 1 Ready farms were quite isolated from our conventional

 2 farms so there was no cross-contamination from pollen

 3 flow.

 4 And also there was no contamination from

 5 machinery from a combine source from a Roundup Ready

 6 field to a conventional field. And we took the -- we

 7 used the simple best management practices that were

 8 suggested to us by Paul Santo and Forage Genetics and

 9 had no problem at all moving from one field to the

10 field from a contamination standpoint.

11 The Roundup Ready fields were much more soft

12 the environment because of less pesticide use, less

13 cultivation -- less cultivation, and is -- when the

14 alfalfa got re-regulated, the Roundup Ready Alfalfa

15 re-regulated, there was no problem at all taking out

16 Roundup Ready fields.

17 It was just as simple as a conventional

18 field, and there is no -- no visible, no significant

19 difference between Roundup Ready Alfalfa and original

20 alfalfa as far as stewardship, and it all can be

21 quite easily together with no significant problems.

22 Thanks.

23 MR. GREGOIRE: The next speaker is Cindy

24 Steiger.

25 CINDY STEIGER: I am Cindy Steiger. I'm
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 1 Hysham, Montana. Our operation includes 2000

 2 crop acres, some of which is alfalfa seed production

 3 which we've been involved in for 30 years.

 4 Additionally, we grow alfalfa hay for cattle.

 5 In any farming operation, there are many

 6 specific weeds to control. Weeds such as kosha

 7 (phonetic), red rut (phonetic), ground cherries, and

 8 many others. Our seed fields are inspected in order

 9 be certified and would not pass inspection with a

10 multitude of weeds. Weeds also have tremendous

11 on yields and can be a huge obstacle at harvest.

12 It is in our best interest to be good

13 of the land and to protect the consumer. Our very

14 survival depends on best farming practices as well as

15 control as able the enormous cost of production.

16 Roundup Ready gives us the ability to reduce

17 that cost of production by I'm told anywhere from 50

18 $300 per acre. Chemicals that are used in non-GMO

19 can require many different mixes -- well, many

20 chemicals mixed together in order to control the

21 of weeds which would threaten the emerging and

22 crop. This is sometimes done every seven days

23 great sickening of the crops itself but necessary so

24 that the weeds don't take over and destroy the crop

25 its entirety.
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 1 Cost to farmers is astronomical and such

 2 hurts the yield. With Roundup Ready seed, this harm

 3 eliminated and mega chemicals are no longer necessary

 4 Roundup can kill all weeds eliminating competition to

 5 those seedlings.

 6 I would like to go on record and state that

 7 would be easy for us to co-exist with our neighbors.

 8 Currently Roundup Ready crops of soybean, cotton,

 9 tobacco, corn, canola, and sugar beets are raised and

10 marketed freely globally. Thank you.

11 MR. GREGOIRE: The next speaker is Dallas

12 Steiger.

13 DALLAS STEIGER: I'm Dallas Steiger, Hysham,

14 Montana. We raised sugar beets, alfalfa seeds, and

15 alfalfa hay and corn and cereal grains. So on a

16 of weed resistance being, you know, is Roundup

17 resistant, I don't believe it to be a problem because

18 with our cereal grains -- and we can raise

19 corn also or just alternate around and it will break

20 that practice.

21 And on the edges of the field as far as

22 and stuff, that will be controlled because we always

23 spray them with 2,4-D and a few things like that will

24 kill them so we won't have things get in the way.

25 And anyway I believe the 60-day comment
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 1 is sufficient for this. People now have time to do

 2 We can co-exist. We have been co-existing with

 3 different farming practices for 300 years. We feel

 4 everybody farms the same, so I don't think everybody

 5 should farm the same. So I don't think that, you

 6 co-existence won't be a problem.

 7 As far as the environment, I'm an irrigated

 8 farmer, a lot of it is flood irrigated, and so if we

 9 have those in the alfalfa seed, we have those soil

10 active chemicals and when the flood irrigates you get

11 tail water to run off and, of course, it will go back

12 the water source. And with Roundup Ready you

13 have that because there is no soil activity with

14 Roundup.

15 And there is an air quality issue that Cindy

16 talked about with all the different chemicals. This

17 a safe chemical. Some of them other things you got a

18 lot of -- a lot of stuff.

19 Hay quality, there are 10 percent blooms.

20 you do it right, that should not be a problem because

21 that's the way we want to feed our cattle. We want

22 feed them quality stuff. Our hay goes back to our

23 cows so we would want it to be right.

24 I also believe, and I don't know if this

25 be said here, but the -- okay.
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 1 (Laughter.)

 2 MR. GREGOIRE: It would be nice to know what

 3 you were going to say.

 4 Do we have another speaker, David?

 5 MR. REINHOLD: One second.

 6 MR. GREGOIRE: Michael Bouck.

 7 MICHAEL BOUCK: My name is Michael Bouck.

 8 spelled B-o-u-c-k. I work with the Utah Crop

 9 Improvement Program, it's a seed certification

10 And I have been working with Forage Genetics in the

11 enhanced isolation distances, and we'd just like to

12 a comment on that. And also thank you for the time

13 work that you have done in preparing the EIS and for

14 doing a marvelous job with it.

15 In relation to isolation distances, I have

16 that Forage Genetics has been very proactive in

17 these isolation distances at 900 feet. They have

18 very good job with it, and as a certification agency,

19 have verified those.

20 In isolation distance issues, we see more of

21 issue with isolation coming back from erl (phonetic)

22 stands or hay production fields which is a very

23 and readily resolved issue which I do not believe

24 be a problem for either the hay grower or the seed

25 producers, and I support your work in deregulating
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 2 Thank you.

 3 MR. GREGOIRE: I believe that everyone that

 4 signed up to speak has spoken. Are there any names

 5 I missed, folks that signed the sheet that did not

 6 the opportunity to speak?

 7 Okay. At this point the staff will go to

 8 back of the room and we'll have the poster session

 9 If you want to talk to any members of the staff, you

10 have the opportunity to do that. We can leave

11 comments -- I can see folks are doing that at the

12 back here.

13 In this corner of the room -- if additional

14 people joined the meeting and wish to make a

15 we will arrange for them to do that and have that

16 recorded.

17 Thank you.

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component 30:14

concept 23:13

concepts 21:25

concern 27:2

concluded 4:3,7

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debated 18:7

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delegates 18:7

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Dennis 10:6,7

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deputy 2:9

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deregulating 2:20

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developed 10:24

developing 21:24

development 3:10

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directly 16:16

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director 24:6,8

directors 34:9

disappeared 21:5

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employee 42:9,10

employees 22:8

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endorsement

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entirety 38:1

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environmentalists

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everybody

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excellent 9:23

exception 30:16

exceptional 22:6

excess 28:1,23

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excuse 18:13

executive 10:9

expansion 30:24

expedite 20:18

expenses 28:21

expensive 14:9

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experience 20:1

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expire 29:4

export 14:1,18

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exporting 14:18

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fluke 29:8,13

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grain 32:3

grains 38:16,19

grandfather 9:12

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granting 4:8

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