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 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION

 (APHIS)

 Event H7-1, Roundup Ready Sugar Beet Draft

 Environmental Impact Statement

 Public Meetings

 Thursday, November 17, 2011

 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

 Oregon State University

 LaSells Stewart Center

 Construction and Engineering Hall

 875 Southwest 26th Street

 Corvallis, Oregon

 Taken by: Kimberly McLain
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1 P R O C E E D I N G S

2 MR. GEORGE: If we could get started, please.

3 Thank you all for being here today. As part of a

4 public participation process, we are holding this

5 public meeting to solicit your comments on the draft

6 environmental impact statement for H7-1 sugar beets,

7 also known as Roundup Ready sugar beets.

8 My name is Dick George and I'm Communications

9 Branch Chief at Biotechnology Regulatory Services, a

10 part of APHIS, the Animal, Plant and Health Inspection

11 Service, which in turn is a part of the U.S.D.A.

12 Soliciting public comments is a very important part of

13 our process. We value your input and we are very glad

14 and grateful that you've taken the trouble to come here

15 today and be a part of our process.

16 Also with me are Rebecca Stankiewicz-Gabel,

17 Senior Environmental Protection Specialist. Rebecca's

18 been working on the microphone over on the side. And

19 Neil Hoffman, Science Advisor to the Office of the

20 Deputy Administrator. Neil is the person who signed

21 you in at the table outside and I think he's still out

22 there. Neil worked with our project managers on this

23 environmental impact statement on Roundup Ready sugar

24 beets. Information Officer Larry Hawkins is also with

25 us.

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1 enforce the five minute time limit per speaker.

2 Unfortunately, even if you are not finished within that

3 time, we'll have to move on to the next speaker. We

4 appreciate your understanding. We will end our meeting

5 by 7:00 p.m.

6 When your name is called, please come to the

7 microphone on the side. Please begin by stating and

8 spelling your name for our court reporter and stating

9 your organization if you are representing one. Your

10 five minutes will begin after you've introduced

11 yourself. If you haven't done so already, please

12 provide Rebecca with a written version of your

13 statement at the end of your five minute time period if

14 you have it written out. You can also put written

15 comments in the comment box which is on the round table

16 in the back of the room.

17 If we have time after our speakers have

18 finished with their remarks, we'll have an informal

19 session in the back of the room. The purpose of this

20 session is to answer clarifying questions about our

21 process, not to discuss or debate the issues or

22 analyses of the draft. It's important to remember any

23 comment provided during this informal session are not

24 on the record. To be on the record, your comments must

25 be provided either during the listening session or as a

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1 Larry, are you in the room?

2 I think he's outside as well. Our court

3 reporter is Kim McLain.

4 Our purpose today is to take your comments

5 and to make them part of the public record. You can

6 also enter comments into the public record by going to

7 regulations.gov on the web and entering H7-1 sugar

8 beets in the search box. Public comment period ends on

9 December the 13th. All public comments will be

10 considered before a determination is made on the

11 regulatory status of Roundup Ready sugar beets.

12 On the table in the back of the room as you

13 entered, we have placed some handouts including an

14 Executive Summary Draft, EIS, fact sheets and other

15 information. There are also CDs of the Draft EIS.

16 Please feel free to take any of these materials. The

17 Draft EIS is also available on our website.

18 We are providing speakers five minutes to

19 present their comments. If you forgot to note at sign20 in that you wish to present your comment, please do so

21 now at the sign-in table. Rebecca will be our timer

22 and will let you know when your five minutes are up.

23 We appreciate everyone being polite and offering

24 comments in a civil way. In order to give everyone an

25 equal opportunity to speak, it's necessary for us to

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1 written comment.

2 This concludes our introduction. We'll now

3 begin to take your comments.

4 Our first commentor is Charles Melberg.

5 MR. MELBERG: My name is Charles Melberg.

6 That's C-h-a-r-l-e-s, Melberg, M-e-l-b-e-r-g.

7 I'm from Hector, Minnesota. I'm a life-long

8 sugar beet grower and a major shareholder at our

9 Southern Minnesota Sugar Beet Cooperative. I'm

10 currently on the board of directors and sit on the seed

11 committee of the co-op. I'm a second generation sugar

12 beet grower. I have a farming partnership with my wife

13 and two sons and their families. We have grown Roundup

14 Ready sugar beets since they were made available to us.

15 I am currently in line for a quality yield that's

16 steadily increased than in the past when we planted

17 conventional seeds. We fully support Alternative 2 in

18 EIS which is a full deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar

19 beets.

20 We continue to need scientific research to

21 produce the highest yielding of quality sugar with the

22 least harm to the environment. It is important to be

23 able to produce sugar at a cost that makes it

24 competitive in the world market for generations to come

25 to our family farm. If we are forced to use only
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1 conventional seed in 2011, the family farms in our

2 cooperative would not have been able to harvest about

3 60 percent of our sugar beets which is approximately

4 69,000 acres. Because of the cool, wet weather in the

5 spring and the hot summers, with conventional seeds we

6 would not have been able to control the weeds and

7 diseases because of cool wet springs. There were not

8 enough dry days to spray industrial herbicide at the

9 correct timing.

10 The application time frame for industrial

11 herbicides is very tight and in order to kill the weeds

12 and we certainly do not want to apply herbicides before

13 a threatening rain storm. The yields on our farm since

14 the advent of Roundup Ready sugar beets are 15 to 20

15 percent greater. So we need fewer acres to produce our

16 crops which means there are less sugar beet acres being

17 covered by herbicides and the extra acres are being

18 freed up from Roundup Ready sugar beets that can be

19 used to plant other crops to feed the world.

20 I'm on the seed committee of the Southern

21 Minnesota Sugar Beet Cooperative and we have very

22 strict standards for both seed qualities and because we

23 have no other source of sugar beets to operate our

24 factories. We closely evaluate varieties through a

25 number of factors such as disease, resistance, sugar

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1 technology and science to be able to compete in the

2 world sugar production and assure that my three

3 grandsons will be able to continue the practices we

4 have established in the past. On behalf of my family

5 and my fellow producers, please choose Alternative 2 in

6 the EIS and deregulate Roundup Ready sugar beets.

7 Thank you.

8 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

9 Paul Stieber.

10 MR. STIEBER: Hello, my name is Paul Stieber,

11 P-a-u-l, S-t-i-e-b-e-r. I'm a third generation farmer

12 in Big Horn County, Montana. I have grown sugar beets

13 for 32 years, ten of those being for the farmer owned

14 Western Sugar Cooperative. I have been a director on a

15 local grower association for eight years, presently

16 serving as president. I also serve on the seed

17 committee. My 20-year-old son and I grow sugar beets,

18 winter wheat, and malt barley to maintain the three19 year rotation in our sugar beets. This rotation

20 prevents Roundup Ready resistant weeds. I have grown

21 100 percent Roundup Ready sugar beets since they were

22 first available in 2008. We currently grow Roundup

23 Ready sugar beets under a compliance agreement between

24 APHIS and the Western Sugar Cooperative.

25 There are many benefits to Roundup Ready

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1 content yield. It takes several years for us to find a

2 variety with the desired traits and make commercial

3 quantities available to our growers. We need the seed

4 company each year to evaluate if we are not making our

5 goals. We have not had any issues of red beets, Swiss

6 chard in our commercial seeds, even with isolation

7 distances in the Willamette Valley at 1.5 miles. This

8 is a strict standard in isolation distances of three or

9 four miles is totally well beyond whatever is needed

10 for or employed by other seed producers.

11 With respect to weed resistant issues, our

12 co-op and all of our members have gone through the

13 training for the compliance agreement. In our crop

14 rotation, we have different chemicals, for example, so

15 we do not have weed resistance in that crop. In the

16 area where we live in central Minnesota, we have very

17 harsh winters with temperatures at minus 40 degrees

18 below 0. There is no chance of any seed or sugar beet

19 surviving that winter. Sometimes it's hard for man to

20 survive the winters. You do not have any potential to

21 see a wild beet in Minnesota and no cross pollination

22 of sugar beets.

23 We very much appreciate all the time people

24 have spent to keep this excellent technology of Roundup

25 Ready sugar beets available to us. We need this

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1 sugar beets and these are major benefits to the

2 environment, growers along with their employees, the

3 crop and the consumer. Roundup is a very safe

4 herbicide to the environment, the handler and the crop.

5 In the past with conventional sugar beets, we tank

6 mixed as many as four different herbicides that were

7 more toxic with less weed control and a lot of

8 situations requiring expensive hand labor that was hard

9 to acquire. Roundup has a flexible application window

10 with superior weed control resulting in increased

11 yields and does not require cultivation, so we are

12 creating fewer emissions.

13 The partial deregulation and compliance

14 agreements did not change the way we farm because good

15 stewardship practices like crop rotation and weed

16 control have always contributed to higher yields. My

17 technology use agreement with Monsanto also requires

18 certain stewardship requirements like the removal of

19 bolters and correct application rates of Roundup

20 herbicide. If we were to lose this technology, it

21 would increase our operating costs and make us less

22 competitive in the global market where some countries

23 are heavily subsidized. We would also lose young

24 producers who would move to other professions because

25 of the complicated, ineffective practice of
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1 conventional sugar beets.

2 As a seed committee member, we have always

3 required quality seed with disease and pest resistance

4 with high yield levels, also, variety purity without

5 the presence of bolters is a strict requirement. All

6 of these rules and requirements were around long before

7 Roundup Ready sugar beets were ever developed.

8 To address seed production in the Willamette

9 Valley, seed production for sugar beets Swiss chard and

10 table beets have been grown successfully for years in

11 the Willamette Valley because of field separation

12 guidelines. There are no risks of cross pollination

13 for Roundup Ready sugar beets in my growing area

14 because table beets and Swiss chard are not grown

15 there.

16 This decision affects over 940 Western Sugar

17 Cooperative growers producing 128,000 acres of sugar

18 beets. With these facts, we fully support Alternative

19 2, full deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar beets.

20 Thank you.

21 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

22 Clay Crumbaugh.

23 MR. CRUMBAUGH: Good afternoon, ladies and

24 gentleman. My name is Clay Crumbaugh, C-l-a-y, C-r-u25 m-b-a-u-g-h. I am the Chairman of the Michigan Sugar

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1 characteristics in terms of tons per acre, sugar per

2 ton, sugar per acre, emergence and disease and pest

3 resistance. Seed suppliers have already done

4 significant testing of their own prior to submitting

5 varieties to Michigan Sugar Company for evaluation.

6 Only varieties that meet or exceed Michigan Sugar

7 Company seed committee variety approval standards

8 become fully approved for planting by our growers.

9 Sugar beet seed production is a lengthy and

10 sensitive process. It can take many years to recover

11 from disruptive legal or policy changes. These changes

12 can cause productive varieties to be unnecessarily

13 eliminated and other desirable varieties to be in short

14 supply. Under my leadership, the seed committee has

15 open dialogue with our seed suppliers so that we don't

16 inadvertently cause a shortage in the supply of seed to

17 our market. The seed committee reviews the variety

18 approval standards annually and communicates closely

19 with our seed suppliers as we consider any changes.

20 Our suppliers host members of our seed committee at

21 their processing facilities from time to time to review

22 their seed growing, handling, processing, preparation

23 and packaging practices.

24 Losing Roundup Ready sugar beets would have

25 damaging effects to Michigan Sugar Company and its

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1 Company Seed Committee. I'm the Treasurer of the

2 Michigan Sugar Company West District Board. I have

3 been on the seed committee in Michigan since 1996 and

4 have been chairman of the committee since 2005. My

5 family and I have a cash crop farm in the geographic

6 center of the lower peninsula of Michigan where we

7 annually raise 900 acres of sugar beets along with

8 other crops. I have raised Roundup Ready sugar beets

9 on my farm since 2008 and have had no issues using the

10 technology.

11 In 2011, I raised my sugar beets under

12 compliance agreements between Michigan Sugar Company

13 and USDA APHIS. Michigan Sugar Company is comprised of

14 1,000 grower-owners who raise 160,000 acres of sugar

15 beets annually and employ 2,000 seasonal and full-time

16 employees. Michigan Sugar Company has a one-half

17 billion dollar direct economic impact on our economy in

18 Michigan.

19 High quality seed is very important to

20 Michigan Sugar Company and the grower-owners. We have

21 always received high quality seed from the Willamette

22 Valley. This is measured in Michigan by subjecting

23 varieties submitted by suppliers to testing standards

24 set by the Michigan Sugar Company seed committee.

25 These standards measure a variety's production

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1 growers. Many growers would abandon sugar beet

2 production entirely. Yields would drop and weed

3 control would be hampered. Conventional herbicides

4 provide less effective weed control, are more subject

5 to weather problems and are toxic to the sugar beets

6 themselves. Conventional herbicides require precise

7 timing of application despite the weather for maximum

8 efficacy and reduced damage to the sugar beets. A wet

9 spring, like Michigan sugar growers experienced this

10 spring, with the old conventional herbicides would have

11 been devastating. Sugar beet acres would have been

12 replanted to another crop. Michigan Sugar Company

13 would have had less sugar beets to process this winter

14 resulting in less sugar produced for sale lowering the

15 payment to growers. This could have put our co-op in

16 jeopardy. Roundup Ready technology offers much greater

17 flexibility of timing, near perfect weed control and

18 causes no damage to the sugar beet crop. Going back to

19 the old method would be more labor intensive, would use

20 more fuel, would require more tillage of the soil,

21 result in less efficient sugar production, lower sugar

22 yield and less control of weeds.

23 Growers in Michigan are committed to good

24 stewardship of Roundup Ready technology and good

25 stewardship of the environment. Farmers in Michigan
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1 grew up on family farms just like I did. We have

2 received training in weed resistance management. We

3 are certified pesticide applicators and Michigan Sugar

4 Company growers have received training from Michigan

5 Sugar Company to ensure compliance with USDA-APHIS

6 requirements for producing Roundup Ready sugar beets.

7 Partial deregulation would not cause a significant

8 change in farming operations, only more reporting to

9 Michigan Sugar Company.

10 Sustainable agriculture is important to me.

11 Like most farmers, I take a long-term view of all

12 issues affecting agriculture. I am making a career of

13 farming as did my forefathers and my two sons are

14 planning to return to the family farm after college

15 graduation.

16 Cross pollination is not an issue in Michigan

17 because while sugar beets are a biennial seed crop,

18 they are an annual sugar crop. There is no chance of

19 survival of the root crop through a Michigan winter.

20 If a root did survive through the winter and did not

21 produce seed stalk the following summer, there is no

22 chance of cross pollination because there are no

23 compatible crops grown in the region for cross

24 pollination to occur.

25 I urge USDA-APHIS to restore deregulated

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1 harvest weather, and a world class process makes the

2 area desirable for growing seed. Our growers have

3 always demanded and received pure and high quality

4 sugar beet varieties from the Willamette Valley even

5 while Swiss chard and table beet production has

6 occurred in the valley.

7 Prior to the production of Roundup Ready

8 seed, conventional seed was grown for decades in

9 isolation distance here in the Willamette Valley of 1.5

10 miles, which was very adequate to maintain high quality

11 seed for the buyers of that seed which is our growers.

12 When Roundup Ready sugar beet seed production was

13 introduced, those isolation distances at least doubled

14 to proactively -- to proactive -- in those isolation

15 distances. We believe that action was successful. We

16 also believe the final EIS should better reflect the

17 proactive stewardship measures taken by our seed

18 industry to double the isolation distances to make sure

19 producers of grade of seed species produce pure, high

20 quality seeds for all their customers.

21 Planting of sugar beet seed with the Roundup

22 Ready trait began in Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar

23 Cooperative in 2008. As more seed became available in

24 2009, over 90 percent of our crop was planted to

25 Roundup Ready seed. For the crop years of 2010 and

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1 status to Roundup Ready sugar beets. I appreciate the

2 arduous task of preparing the Environmental Impact

3 Statement and I thank you for the efforts that you have

4 put forth. I support proposed Alternative 2 granting

5 full deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar beets.

6 MR. GEORGE: Mark Arnold.

7 MR. ARNOLD: Good afternoon, my name is Mark

8 Arnold, M-a-r-k, A-r-n-o-l-d. I'm the Chairman of the

9 Board of Directors Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar

10 Cooperative. Our cooperative is in full support of

11 proposed Alternative 2, full deregulation of Roundup

12 Ready sugar beets. Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar

13 Cooperative was formed in 1972 after a processing plant

14 in Chaska, Minnesota ceased operation. Approximately

15 300 growers invested in the cooperative and built a new

16 factory in Renville, Minnesota. Today, the cooperative

17 has 509 growers, shareholders and plants 120,000 acres

18 of sugar beets each year. Each year our growers

19 purchase approximately 69,000 units of sugar beet seed

20 worth 18 million dollars which directly benefits

21 growers in the Willamette Valley.

22 Ever since the planting of the first sugar

23 beet crop for our cooperative in 1975, the primary

24 source of sugar beets seed has been the Willamette

25 Valley. Mild winters, low disease pressure, dry

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1 2011, over 88 percent of the seed planted was Roundup

2 Ready. Weed control has always been a major challenge

3 for the production of sugar beets. With the use of

4 Roundup Ready trait, our growers have experienced much

5 better weed control, reduced cost of production,

6 increased yields and reduced weed production for future

7 years.

8 The use of Roundup Ready sugar beet seed has

9 given our cooperative growers a tool to be good

10 stewards to our environment. Growers now apply fewer

11 and much less toxic herbicides. Make fewer passes

12 through the fields with their tractors, thereby using

13 less fuel and lowering emissions. Without the use of

14 Roundup Ready sugar beets, our cooperative faces the

15 challenge of growers reducing acreage because of the

16 lack of weed control higher cost of production and the

17 option to grow other crops with Roundup Ready traits.

18 With the use of Roundup Ready sugar beets, the growers

19 of Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative and all

20 American sugar beet growers, will be able to continue

21 to provide American consumers with a consistent and

22 safe supply of sugar.

23 On behalf of the Southern Minnesota Beet

24 Sugar Cooperative Board of Directors and all of its

25 growers and shareholders, I would like to express our
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1 appreciation for the hard work reflecting in the Draft

2 Environmental Impact Statement prepared by APHIS.

3 Again, Southern Minnesota Sugar Beet Cooperative is in

4 support of proposed Alternative 2, full deregulation of

5 Roundup Ready sugar beets. Thank you.

6 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

7 Greg Loberg.

8 MR. LOBERG: Hello everyone. My name is

9 Greg, G-r-e-g, Loberg, L-o-b-e-r-g. I'm the Manager of

10 West Coast Beet Seed Company in Salem, Oregon. We

11 represent a diverse selection of seed growers in the

12 Willamette Valley. Member companies that initiate seed

13 production at West Coast Beet Seed include American

14 Crystal Sugar, Syngenta, Holly Seed and SES VanderHave.

15 West Coast Beet Seed has developed explicit

16 standard operating procedures and grower guidelines

17 intended to minimize or eliminate a movement of pollen

18 among seed fields and inadvertent seed mixing. West

19 Coast Beet Seed has strict protocols to minimize the

20 possibility of accidental mixing of our seed with any

21 other seed. We track seed from the time members

22 provide stock seed continuing through all phases of

23 seed production in field, including delivery of

24 multiple seed to our dedicated seed processing

25 facility. And finally, concluding in shipping

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1 is to maintain a mapping system where fields are

2 recorded or pinned to ensure adequate isolation

3 distances between genetically compatible crops. The

4 pinning process is not unique to sugar beets or other

5 specialty seeds, having been used in such crops as

6 sunflowers for many years.

7 Isolation distances are agreed to by the

8 members of the Willamette Valley Seed Association. That

9 group provides an opportunity for seed savers to pin

10 crops with the assistance of Willamette Valley

11 Specialty Seed Association member. The Association

12 creates an environment of cooperation by promoting

13 coexistence among farmers growing competitive crops,

14 including those growing biotech sugar beets and those

15 growing non-biotech crops.

16 I know our growers, their businesses, and

17 often their family members. West Coast Beet Seed has

18 worked with them as partners and enjoys relationships

19 with some who are now in their third or even fourth

20 generation of producing seeds for West Coast Beet Seed.

21 Many of our growers are members of the recently formed

22 grower association to promote and preserve specialty

23 seed production and they pay dues to the Specialty Seed

24 Growers of Western Oregon.

25 West Coast Beet Seed Company supports full

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1 processed seed to members. These procedures include

2 scheduled and ongoing grower and staff training,

3 careful monitoring of seed production during growing

4 season. Prohibiting seed growers from growing other

5 Beta species, cleaning equipment before and after

6 harvest of a sugar beet variety, and monitoring for and

7 eliminating volunteer sugar beets after harvest.

8 I have been in my position since 2007 and

9 have been in the industry for over 31 years. I have

10 worked closely with Willamette Valley Speciality Seed

11 and have been an officer since 2008. Including time in

12 the more distant past, I have worked with the

13 Willamette Valley Specialty Seed Association for about

14 12 years. West Coast Beet Seed is a member of the Seed

15 Association. It was formed in 1980 by companies

16 involved in vegetable, sugar beet and other specialty

17 seeds. With the assistance of Oregon State University,

18 this group was created to promote quality seed

19 production.

20 All commercial companies producing seed in

21 the Willamette Valley are members of the Willamette

22 Valley Specialty Seed Association. New memberships are

23 encouraged and pursued in order to maintain full

24 representation of specialty seed production. One of

25 the major activities of Willamette Valley Association

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1 deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar beets. Thank you.

2 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

3 Rodney Hightower.

4 MR. HIGHTOWER: My name is Rodney Hightower,

5 R-o-d-n-e-y, Hi-g-h-t-o-w-e-r.

6 I'm the Vice President of Strome Farms

7 located in Junction City, Oregon. I have served a term

8 as president of both the Oregon Seed Growers League and

9 the Oregon Seed Council. Our farm has been growing

10 various seed crops for more than 70 years on about 750

11 acres. Sugar beet seed has been in our crop rotation

12 for more than 35 years. It is one of our higher-value

13 crops and provides a very good return to us. They are

14 a significant and stable part of our yearly income. If

15 we were not able to grow sugar beet seeds, it would

16 have a strong financial impact on our business. We in

17 the seed production industry understand the roles of

18 cropping history, crop rotations, isolations and field

19 and machinery sanitation plays in producing a

20 genetically pure, clean and quality seed product. Our

21 contract with the beet company requires that we follow

22 very strict production standards. We spend a

23 tremendous amount of time and effort to grow the best

24 crop possible because the market demands that we meet

25 these quality standards.
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1 There is no market for genetically inferior

2 or contaminated seed. Isolation distances are

3 important to avoid cross pollination. Every seed crop

4 grown in this valley has to deal with this issue and

5 make sure both the growers and seed companies have

6 extensive experience dealing with the various systems

7 that are in place to ensure the Willamette Valley keeps

8 its reputation as a premier seed growing region.

9 Because we also produce other seed crops that

10 have to be free of contamination from weeds and other

11 crops, we go to great effort to control volunteers from

12 previous crops and crops that are currently growing in

13 a given field. This past year was the fourth year that

14 we have grown sugar beet seed with the Roundup Ready

15 gene. In our experience, we have not had any problems

16 controlling volunteer plants. Roundup Ready sugar beet

17 volunteers are easily controlled with tillage in our

18 crop rotation. There are also crops highly susceptible

19 to other herbicide chemistries that we may use if the

20 need arises. I feel that there is very little chance

21 that this crop becoming a weed could not be controlled

22 because it is an annual plant and there are several

23 control measures.

24 I urge the USDA to fully deregulate Roundup

25 Ready sugar beets so that the sugar industry can

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1 and Hearing chairman for the Junction City Lion's Club

2 but most of all a father to one son and six daughters.

3 We have been growing sugar beets on our farm

4 since 1986. Two years ago we raised 120 acres of sugar

5 beets from seed which accounted for 25 percent of our

6 income on only six percent of our land. These numbers

7 share the value of what raising sugar beet seed has

8 offered our farm. This past year, we were limited to

9 only 28 acres due to the regulations of the industry

10 and the lack of good roots available for the same

11 reason. This over-regulation of the sugar beet

12 industry is a burden carried by the growers. We hope

13 this can be relieved through deregulation of the sugar

14 beet industry.

15 I believe the integrated pest management

16 activities undertaken by growers already, along with

17 strict rules imposed by our contracting company,

18 ensures the protection that the regulations duplicate.

19 We are contracted by the Beta-Seed Inc.

20 which has strict, significant stewardship

21 measures that we must adhere to. There are isolation

22 distances imposed. Volunteer control methods either

23 physical or chemical that growers employ within crop

24 rotations. There is also strict limitations between

25 sugar beet seed crops and on seed producers land and a

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1 continue to produce profitable sugar without the

2 uncertainty that has been hovering over this crop.

3 Thank you.

4 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

5 John Reerslev.

6 MR. REERSLEV: Good afternoon. My name is

7 John, J-o-h-n, Reerslev, R-e-e-r-s-l-e-v. And I am one

8 of the Beta-Seed's sugar beet growers from Junction

9 City located in the southern part of the Willamette

10 Valley. I farm with my two brothers providing our

11 family income through sustainable farming operation as

12 the economic, social and environmental conditions

13 allow. Our family has farmed in the Junction City area

14 since my grandparents immigrated from Denmark around

15 1910. Over time, our farm has evolved into a 2,000 acre

16 operation producing peppermint oil, perennial rye grass

17 and tall fescue for turn markets, wheat and hybrid

18 sugar beet seed.

19 I graduated from Oregon State University in

20 Agronomic Crop Science. I have been actively involved

21 in numerous agricultural associations such as the

22 Oregon Essential Oil Growers Association, Oregon Mint

23 Commission, Mint Industry Research Council and Eugene

24 Farmer's Supply Co-op as well as several other civic

25 groups within my community. Including being the Sight

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1 zero volunteer policy in new plantings in sugar beets

2 for seed for the production of high quality hybrids the

3 sugar industry demands for disease and sugar content.

4 The future of producing Roundup Ready sugar

5 beet seed depends on the root grower's success to

6 continue to grow our seeds. Fewer root growers mean

7 less of a need for my farm to continue to grow sugar

8 beet seed. If the industry does not deregulate or

9 totally ban the use of the genetically modified sugar

10 beet plants, many current sugar beet growers will not

11 return to growing conventionally propagated beets

12 because some have said they will no longer be able to

13 grow a quality product economically. This is because

14 the costs and the lack of the available chemical

15 control methods to control their current weed problems

16 associated with the production of sugar. The

17 production of sugar beet seed on our farm is

18 financially and economically very important to our

19 business. It is important as a rotation crop for our

20 sustainability.

21 I encourage the USDA to fully deregulate

22 Roundup Ready sugar beets so we can continue to produce

23 a high quality, pure sugar beet seed to support our

24 country's domestic sugar production. Let's work toward

25 making our own country sustainable in producing more
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1 sugar ourselves versus to have it imported. At the

2 same time, we can further support the thousands of

3 family farms that grow sugar beets as well as the

4 infrastructure that supports the industry. Thank you.

5 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

6 Harry MacCormack.

7 MR. MACCORMACK: My name is Harry, H-a-r-r-y,

8 MacCormack, M-a-c-c-o-r-m-a-c-k. I'm a small, organic

9 -- certified organic grower here in the Willamette

10 Valley and I would urge that the sugar beet industry be

11 regulated as all biotechnical seeds should regulated.

12 One of the things that the USDA has to look

13 at when we are certified through USDA, we cannot have

14 any GMO contamination in our products and I do grow

15 beets and I grow chard and there is some evidence here

16 on the valley floor that there has already been

17 crossing. And I think other people will speak to that

18 that know more about that than I do. This is just one

19 of the biotech tools and I'm not particularly against

20 biotechnology. I just think that we need to regulate it

21 and the fact that there was a court case in 1980 that

22 allowed all this seed to be privately owned and

23 therefore impact our personal farms as a result and has

24 throughout court cases. It's not a technology that is

25 -- the impact of it is not a technology that we have

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1 through fallen seeds. The placement of the transgene

2 in only the female parent will certainly reduce

3 movement via pollen. There must be an agreed upon

4 level of admonitious presence in transgene and non5 transgenic crops. I also believe that if managed

6 correctly, Roundup Ready sugar beets offer benefits for

7 weed control for sugar beets growers.

8 My other comments will address statements

9 related to the Alternatives presented in the EIS which

10 I consider to be inaccurate or potentially misleading

11 to persons not well informed about herbicide use and

12 herbicide resistance in weed populations.

13 Alternative 1 has what I would consider to be

14 a misleading statement that there would be an increase

15 in the usage of the 12 herbicides registered for use in

16 sugar beets. The usage would return to a level that

17 was used before the introduction of Roundup Ready sugar

18 beets. There is no evidence that the usage of those

19 would increase. Although an argument can be made that

20 the herbicides have more environmental impact than

21 glyphosate, if herbicides are currently registered and

22 labeled and used both by the Environmental Protection

23 Agency and State Departments of Agriculture. I would

24 request that the APHIS provide data to support the

25 statement that there are many weeds present in sugar

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1 had any choice over. It's come to us and been laid on

2 us and it threatens the whole organic industry. The

3 deregulation of alfalfa is the first thing. Sugar

4 beets are going to be the second, and there's some of

5 us here today that are quite worried about the coming

6 of biotech wheat into the valley. So I would say that

7 the regulations need to stand and that's it. Thank

8 you.

9 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

10 Carol Mallory-Smith. After Carol we have

11 Camille Hall would be next.

12 MS. MALLORY-SMITH: I'm Carol Mallory-Smith.

13 C-a-r-o-l, M-a-l-l-o-r-y, hyphen, S-m-i-t-h. Some of

14 you in the room know that I'm a professor of Wheat

15 Science at Oregon State University and I want to make

16 it clear that my comments do not represent any opinion

17 but my own and not those of Oregon State University.

18 I'm not here to endorse any of the Alternatives that

19 are being suggested. I would also like to make it

20 clear, in my opinion, that I don't believe that the

21 transgenic sugar beets in question, H7-1, present human

22 health risks.

23 I also believe that transgenic and non24 transgenic crops can coexist in the Willamette Valley

25 but that gene movement will occur at some point either

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1 beet fields.

2 Resistance has rarely been reported to have

3 evolved in sugar beet production fields. In fact, the

4 strongest recommendation for preventing resistance is

5 the rotation of herbicides with different sites of

6 action along with alternative methods of weed control

7 such as killers. Conventional sugar beet production is

8 at a lower risk for selection of resistant weeds than

9 will be a system that is relied upon by only one

10 herbicide.

11 The assertion that there would be more aerial

12 application of herbicides under Alternative 1 needs to

13 be substantiated. Herbicides now registered for use in

14 sugar beets are often soil applied and require

15 incorporation or are applied in advance. It's more

16 likely that applications applied the same would be

17 applied by air especially if the applications are

18 needed late in the growing season. And this would be

19 done to prevent crop damage from spray equipment.

20 Under Alternative 2, there's a statement

21 providing that APHIS would expect that there would be

22 stewardship by the companies but it has no authority to

23 require monitoring or any compliance for action with

24 full deregulation. APHIS -- under Alternatives 2 and

25 3, APHIS should also include any data to support the
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1 statement as related to glyphosate resistant weeds that

2 industry and growers are aware of the situation and

3 will likely take proactive measures aimed to reduce and

4 delay the development as glyphosate resistant weeds.

5 This has not occurred in other Roundup Ready products

6 where, for example, glyphosate resistant weeds are now

7 a major issue in, "soybean and cotton Roundup Ready

8 production systems."

9 And in fact, the resistance management

10 strategy provided by one Monsanto data sheet for the

11 ingenuity of Roundup Ready sugar beets, the first three

12 recommendations are an application of glyphosate.

13 Roundup WeatherMax can be applied in a single season up

14 to 5.3 quarts are allowed and the pattern of use will

15 apply tremendous selection pressure to the evolution of

16 resistant weeds and is modifiable resistance management

17 strategy. Glyphosate resistant weeds are an ongoing and

18 increasing production problem.

19 MR. GEORGE: Thank you. Camille Hall,

20 please. Next will be Doug Zielinksi.

21 MS. HALL: I'm Camille Hall. C-a-m-i-l-l-e,

22 H-a-l-l. I'm here to speak in support of Alternative

23 1. The Willamette Valley is the heart of an important

24 movement to reduce our independence on fossil fuels and

25 to rebuild an effort for food security which would

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1 sugar beet industry has succeeded and will continue to

2 do so without the use of Roundup Ready seed. There is

3 no compelling reason to approve this petition.

4 Alternatives 2 and 3 will clearly have a significant

5 adverse effect on organic farms and the organic seed

6 industry in Oregon and other areas that grow and rely

7 on organic seeds for crops.

8 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

9 Doug Zielinski. Next up would be Kerry

10 Bowen.

11 MR. ZIELINSKI: Good evening or afternoon.

12 Doug Zielinksi, Z-i-e-l-i-n-s-k-i. I'm the owner of

13 Alpha Nursery in Salem. It's a nursery and farming

14 operation. We are a family business and I am the

15 fourth generation and I have my two sons which are the

16 fifth. Our farm began growing sugar beets in -- back

17 as far as 1949 and have continued to be in production

18 since. Sugar beets are one of the crops that fits in

19 our diverse farming operation. We also produce row

20 crops and corn, beans, onions, wheat and other seeds

21 such as grass and radish.

22 This crop plays an important role in

23 contributing towards the bottom line of our company.

24 Sugar beets when planted during the fall and winter

25 months fit our labor force and equipment crop rotation

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1 minimize the need to transport food necessary to

2 support our population centers. Much of this effort

3 centers around the organic farm movement.

4 MR. GEORGE: Can you get a little closer to

5 the microphone, please.

6 MS. HALL: Organic seeds are an essential

7 part of organic farming. And table beets, Swiss chard

8 and like products play an essential role in crop

9 production and seasonally available food crops to this

10 state and nationwide. What's at stake are farms'

11 livelihoods. Not only commercial organic seed

12 producers, but also the small organic farmer who relies

13 on producing and saving their own seeds. This is a

14 historic moment where Monsanto, with corporate tax

15 breaks, lobbyists and employees working for USDA, are

16 pressing its advantage to expand its market for Roundup

17 Ready -- Roundup herbicides.

18 Approval will lead to the expanded use of

19 their trademarked herbicide, industry relied on,

20 patented Roundup Ready seed. It will also shut down

21 the seed production of organic beets and related greens

22 because many of the best places to grow sugar beet seed

23 are also the best places to grow these organic

24 products.

25 I urge the USDA to adopt Alternative 1. The

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1 very well. They also contribute to the soil quality of

2 our farm. Not only does sugar beet seed work well on

3 our farm, it is very important for the Willamette

4 Valley. Because of the unique climate, characterized

5 by the mild winter temperatures and long dry summers

6 for harvest, it's the most ideal place to grow sugar

7 beets in the U.S. For this reason, the vast majority of

8 our seeds that is sold to beet growers throughout the

9 U.S. is grown here -- everything is grown here.

10 The crop has proven to be a very viable one

11 for our future and is bright and the demand for seed

12 continues to grow, due to the fact that refineries for

13 sugar production relies increasingly on sugar from

14 sugar beets. Because of this demand and the fact that

15 the seed is only grown here, beet seed has huge

16 financial impacts on the valley. If we were to abandon

17 this specialty crop, the trickle down effect would be

18 massive. If would affect not only the farmers, the

19 seed producers, but the allied industries ranging from

20 the banks, ag chem, equipment, accountants, insurance

21 providers and most importantly, our employees.

22 I believe that West Coast Beet and the WVSSA

23 have done a very thorough job in providing growers with

24 all the necessary growing procedures as well as the

25 mapping that you've heard about, our crop rotations and
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1 recognizing our isolation distances. For decades now,

2 we have -- have the responsibility to work together and

3 seem to work just fine protecting all species. Farms

4 like mine in the Willamette Valley need to be to able

5 to continue to provide the market with the demands

6 including -- which includes sugar beet seed. While

7 many commodity types in crops are inconsistent as far

8 as the supply and demand over the years, specialty

9 crops such as sugar beet seed have been more than

10 consistent in providing our farms with a steady income.

11 I would hate to have this phased out in our family

12 business because of some burdensome and unnecessary

13 regulations Thank you.

14 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

15 Kerry Bowen and then next up will be Matt

16 Croker.

17 MR. BOWEN: Good afternoon. Kerry Bowen, K18 e-r-r-y, B-o-w-e-n. I'm a third generation beet

19 grower. I got my start with the FFA project in the

20 '70s. I currently grow 500 acres of beets, originally

21 for the Amalgamated Sugar Company. Now I grow for the

22 Snake River Sugar Company when the grower bought the

23 company. I also raise wheat, dry beans and alfalfa.

24 I've raised 100 percent of my beets with

25 Roundup technology since 2008. And I still grow them

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1 ineffective and very costly for growers.

2 Right now, we are operating under the

3 Monsanto agreement which already Monsanto requires

4 certain protocols to be followed and also removes

5 bolters out of our field. For this reason I urge --

6 strongly urge for a full deregulation.

7 I'm also Chairman of the Snake River Seed

8 Committee, a position I've held for 12 years. As that

9 chairman of that committee, I'm responsible to oversee

10 our official trials, review the data provided by our

11 research committee and to make recommendations to that

12 committee so they can make an informed decisions about

13 the product we are approving. With rhizomania becoming

14 the responsibility of the seed committee to approve

15 varieties that are no longer in the area. As with

16 rhizomania, the seed quality is paramount to the end

17 growers. These requirements include rhizomania

18 resistance, curly top resistance, quality of pounds of

19 sugar per acre and pounds per ton.

20 It's also our responsibility to monitor the

21 beet seeds that come into the area and removes market

22 status from varieties which do not or we don't like,

23 such as bolters and/or chard. Currently, we have

24 varieties of market status this year is poor quality or

25 poor rhizomania existence. For a variety to become

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1 under a compliance agreement between the Snake River

2 Sugar and the APHIS. I support proposal 2 and really

3 appreciate APHIS for working so hard to continue to

4 allow me to use this tool. I used to have a witches

5 brew of six different chemicals in order to control the

6 weeds in my beet crop. Some of them within 48 hours

7 had retrainables. I called it chemotherapy because I

8 took my crop to the brink of death and then revive it.

9 This is the physical evidence.

10 The Roundup allows me to reduce my tillage

11 and right now I'm heavy into rototilling which leaves a

12 smaller carbon footprint. All these are available to

13 me because of Roundup. When I grow silage corn, I stay

14 away from Roundup on my corn because of a plethora of

15 other chemicals available for weed control, thus, I

16 have less of a chance of Roundup resistant weeds. As

17 with growers, we do our best to be good stewards to the

18 resources we have control over. I was the grower

19 representative at the time rhizomania was found in our

20 valley. I was the third grower to be diagnosed with

21 this virus which led me down the path that brought me

22 here today. When rhizomania was diagnosed in Idaho,

23 the Idaho Department of Ag implemented protocols for

24 weed growers to follow. In a couple years those

25 protocols were abandoned and they were found to be

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1 official in our trial, it took two years to get a

2 status and our growers are clamoring for better and

3 newer varieties. And to help with being profitable,

4 Roundup makes a tool to assist us in this. Right now,

5 we have over 50 different varieties and because of the

6 competition for better varieties, they don't hang

7 around very long. Five or six years is an old variety

8 and the ones that have been around ten years, that's a

9 grandfather. Compared to wheat, which I've been

10 growing the same variety over 20 years, beets evolve a

11 lot quicker.

12 Thank you for your support and listening to

13 me.

14 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

15 Matt Croker followed by Bruce Ruddenklau.

16 Matt Croker, please. No? Okay. Then we go to Bruce

17 Ruddenklau.

18 MR. RUDDENKLAU: Bruce Ruddenklau, B-r-u-c-e,

19 R-u-d-d-e-n-k-l-a-u. Good afternoon. My wife Helen

20 and I farm at the Amity area, 50 miles north of here on

21 the west side of the Willamette Valley. We farm around

22 1,000 acres on which we grow grass seed, wheat for

23 certified seed, clover seed, radish seed, metaphone

24 seed, dried peas, sweet corn, and bush beans. We also

25 raise sugar beet seed on contract with West Coast Beet
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1 Seed. It was a very lucky break for us to get five

2 acres of beet seed production in 1994, our third year

3 of farming. Since then, we've expanded our operation

4 and so has our beet seed acres and so now we annually

5 raise about 40 to 50 acres of beets. The Willamette

6 Valley is well known for a high quality, consistent

7 production of many seed crops. The purity of these

8 crops is guaranteed by the Oregon State University

9 certification system. We have to adhere to standards

10 of crop rotation, isolation distances and weed

11 tolerances. This is common practice with seed growers

12 in the Willamette Valley.

13 For crops not covered by this system, there

14 is stringent protocol in place to decide how -- which

15 crops to be grown where. This protocol has worked well

16 for a number of years and resulted in uncontaminated

17 seed crops of similar types and species being produced

18 within one geographic area. We follow guidelines of

19 isolation distances, rotation schedules, cultivation

20 practices and herbicide use, all for the specific

21 purpose of avoiding cross contamination. This is all

22 especially true for sugar beet seed. In many ways,

23 much of our cropping rotation revolves around the

24 placement of this crop. We plan four to five years out

25 in order to have fields and meet isolation requirements

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1 moving into a valuable crop.

2 Finally, I'd like to say a word about West

3 Coast Beet Seed. I raise seed crops for many different

4 seed companies but few in my experience offer the

5 honesty and integrity that characterizes West Coast

6 Beet Seed. I'm proud to raise the sugar beet seed that

7 in turn another farmer uses to grow his livelihood

8 which provides tremendous value to the whole continent.

9 Under the watchful eye of the reputable beet seed

10 companies in the Willamette Valley, I believe we have

11 proven we can produce this crop in a responsible

12 manner. Thank you.

13 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

14 Clint Lindsey is next. He will be followed

15 by John Brice.

16 MR. LINDSEY: Good afternoon. My name is

17 Clint Lindsey and I'm with A2R Farms Alliant Seed and

18 Grain. My family has been farming in the valley since

19 the '60s. We grow grass seed, oats, beans, wheat,

20 flax, various other seed crops. Also part of a group

21 of farms that is basically set up to increase the

22 availability of staple foods, most of those grown

23 organically.

24 My chief concern is that by allowing the full

25 deregulation GMO quality sugar beets it will lead to a

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1 as well as crop history and herbicide history.

2 During the growing season we are careful not

3 to accidentally transfer any pollen or mature seeds out

4 of the field. At harvest time, we have to load our

5 seed into boxes within the field boundary, again, not

6 to let any viable seeds escape. A whole load is

7 thoroughly topped before transport. After harvest, the

8 seeds and husks fall on the ground and are allowed to

9 sprout and then killed before a new crop is planted.

10 We do not plow under any viable seeds which could then

11 sprout later on. The fields are scouted for a few

12 years after beets have been produced to make sure there

13 are no volunteer plants, and if so, they are removed.

14 Meeting this requirement is not easy, but the

15 rewards of doing so make it well worth the effort.

16 Sugar beet seed are one of the highest returning crop

17 and in many cases, worth twice as much as wheat, corn

18 or grass seed. It is a very unique crop and the value

19 of it remains consistent regardless of the falling in

20 Wall Street or the fluctuations in the market. Beet

21 seed remains a stable, high-value crop and as husbandry

22 and harvest are done with minimal additional equipment

23 over and above what a typical seed producer would have

24 on hand. There's also a great rotation for grass seed.

25 By allowing us a chance to control the grass we grow by

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1 slippery slope to allow other GMO crops in the valley.

2 I think sugar beets are just the first step. I find it

3 somewhat ironic that six years ago when we applied for

4 a permit to grow canola, we said many of the same

5 things that some of my fine colleagues are saying now,

6 which is we would cover our loads. We would kill

7 volunteers. We would make all provisions for cleaning

8 our equipment. We met and exceeded the ODA's

9 requirements for approving that permit but were still

10 denied because of the perceived threat to the vegetable

11 seed industry and I respect that decision. I think it

12 was ultimately the right decision. So now, we're

13 hearing the same arguments from seed growers who are

14 saying we've been doing this responsibly for awhile but

15 we can control these risks.

16 We've also heard statements that are saying

17 that it's almost inevitable that you will eventually

18 see GE traits in the non-GE varieties. Well, that's an

19 unacceptable risk to us. Why risk a whole industry,

20 you know. We have a very unique position here in the

21 Willamette Valley. We have a burgeoning organic seed

22 industry that is under direct threat from genetically

23 modified crops and I don't want to mortgage the future

24 of our ability to provide organic food so that Monsanto

25 can line their pockets. Thank you.
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1 MR. GEORGE: John Brice will be followed by

2 Bud Laurent.

3 MR. BRICE: Good afternoon. My name is John

4 Brice, J-o-h-n, B-r-i-c-e. I've been a member of

5 several supply cooperatives and grower cooperatives and

6 the processes over the last 43 years of my professional

7 life. I have --

8 MR. GEORGE: John, can you just get a little

9 closer to the microphone, please. That's great.

10 Thanks so much.

11 MR. BRICE: I have served on boards of

12 directors for Eugene Farmers Supply Co-op and Agropac.

13 I have grown crops for numerous processors including

14 Beta-Seed. I am a second generation farmer in a family

15 that has operated here for over 60 years. We farm

16 approximately 700 acres and raise wheat, green beans,

17 sweet corn, peppermint, radish seed as well as sugar

18 beet seed. We have been raising sugar beets for at

19 least 35 years. Our operation employs five full-time

20 persons and many seasonal workers. Most of our

21 rotational crops require us to follow up with thorough

22 measures to minimize volunteers going forward and

23 eradicate what few survive these efforts before they

24 mature. Most of our companion crops -- companion crop

25 customers don't want sugar beets growing in their

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1 about what your agency is about to decide.

2 Because of my background, I appreciate and

3 respect the American tradition of family farming and

4 the strength of this tradition was a large reason of

5 my wife and I choosing to settle here. It takes guts to

6 be a small farmer and there are many examples of gutsy

7 people here in the Willamette Valley. Striving

8 successfully to compete with corporate agriculture by

9 using the tools made at the bedrock of American

10 farmers. Intelligence, commitment, innovation, market

11 demand and sheer hard work. However, the tradition has

12 been under attack for decades now and these family

13 farms are consistently replaced with corporate

14 agribusinesses besides something viable and valuable is

15 being lost to the fabric of America. The impending

16 decision at the heart of this hearing may have little

17 to do to impede that trend should you forbid the use of

18 wholesale Roundup sugar beets in the Willamette Valley,

19 but should you find in favor of further corporatization

20 of the sugar beet industry, you will constitute another

21 nail in the coffin of the American small farmer.

22 I'd like to briefly list a few things that I

23 think we should all be concerned about. First, the

24 affects of imposed isolation zones. In order to

25 protect against genetic cross fertilization caused by

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1 fields. If we are not allowed to continue to grow

2 sugar beets, Roundup Ready sugar beets, it would have a

3 significant negative financial impact as well as

4 seriously complicating our rotations with other crops.

5 It seems to us that not being able to grow

6 Roundup Ready sugar beets would greatly hinder

7 production of the crop as many of the other chemistries

8 are either unavailable or have lost efficacy. It also

9 seems that permanent regulation is not needed as it is

10 not seem to be -- there does not seem to be any

11 evidence of cross pollination having really been shown

12 to be a problem. Therefore, we support full

13 deregulation of sugar beets.

14 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

15 Bud Laurent. He will be followed by Katy

16 Stokes.

17 MR. LAURENT: Thank you. My name is Bud

18 Laurent, B-u-d, L-a-u-r-e-n-t. I'm a resident of the

19 Willamette Valley just a few miles from here, about

20 three miles to the east of the Willamette River. My

21 neighborhood is surrounded by, at the moment, grass

22 seed farms which we greatly enjoy. While I was raised

23 in an agricultural family, I am not a farmer. I have

24 no direct economic connection to agriculture. So I

25 appear here today as just an American citizen concerned

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1 winds, is up to six miles isolation zone, if I'm

2 understanding it correctly, has been recommended under

3 one scenario to provide adequate protection to non-GMO

4 crops from contamination by GMO crops. The corporate

5 sugar beet industry has apparently complained about the

6 size of the zone and it has proposed a reduction to at

7 least a three-mile radius and not farther, thereby

8 further reducing the statistical protection assumed the

9 surrounding agriculture.

10 My questions of you are, is this zone placed

11 only on the sugar beet land in question, and if so,

12 what will the non-sugar beet zone be used for? Have

13 you counted the total isolation zones for the

14 Willamette Valley and what the impact on agriculture

15 in the regional economy will be? Or will some or all

16 of this zone be in place on neighboring properties

17 thereby leading to loss of use by farmers operating

18 under or relying on organic guidelines. If the latter

19 is true to any extent, are you not concerned about the

20 impact of the unrelying, unAmericanism of this

21 monopolicy practice and the defamation of life, liberty

22 and the pursuit of happiness to every farmer?

23 Another concern, the right of consumers to

24 know what kind of food they're eating. America's sugar

25 beets are strictly grown, as I understand, for the U.S.
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1 market and mainly purchased by the Processed Food Can

2 Administration. They are not exported because most

3 foreign markets restrict importation of engineered food

4 products. The American sugar beet lobbyists have

5 vigorously opposed labeling legislation that would

6 require identification of GMO ingredients. All less

7 corporate controlled countries are adopting such

8 legislation.

9 This industry resistance can only succeed for

10 so long before American consumers prevail in

11 establishing the right to know what they are putting in

12 their mouths and bodies. When that happens, products

13 made with the American GMO sugar beets will be at a

14 decided competitive disadvantage with the intended

15 destructive consequences to the Willamette Valley

16 agricultural economy. Had you included this in your

17 deliberated thinking? Are you fully prepared to let

18 the genie out of the bottle?

19 Third, the impacts of the increased use of

20 Roundup. There's increasing evidence that the use of

21 Roundup has undesirable side effects on wildlife,

22 positive in the surfactant carriers rather than the

23 glyphosate itself. There is also growing body of

24 research on the adaptability of target wheat species

25 and developing resistance to Roundup. It's not

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1 chooses to eat.

2 I can only hope and pray that this agency

3 will prove the skeptics wrong by coming to the decision

4 that favor small farmers over corporations and a long

5 view over the short term. Thank you.

6 MR. GEORGE: Katy Stokes is next. She'll be

7 followed by Sabrina Siegel.

8 MS. STOKES: Hello, I'm Katy Stokes. K-a-t-y,

9 S-t-o-k-e-s. Okay. It's unusual for me to come and

10 speak in public and I'm here to say that I encourage

11 stronger regulations in the sugar beet industry. I

12 think that everyone here is sincere in believing that

13 they will do the best job they can. Accidents happen

14 and this is such a wonderful growing area. I've lived

15 in Benton County for 40 years. I'm a small farmer and

16 a seed grower myself. If the accident happens, it can't

17 be turned around. To have contamination of the GMO's

18 that this valley is already producing is very, very

19 dangerous and I feel very nervous about it.

20 It's also a historic time not just for

21 agriculture but also in our country, economically,

22 people are saying no to big corporations and saying

23 that money is not the most important thing. The

24 economy is not the most important thing and the bigger

25 corporations set a lot of rules. Monsanto has not been

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1 difficult to imagine what the result of an increasing

2 reliance on herbicides like Roundup will be to the

3 development of Frankenweeds as an unintended

4 consequence. If you want corollary evidence in another

5 arena, look no further than the overuse of antibiotics

6 in whole human and agricultural applications.

7 My final concern, for now, is that this

8 hearing has been advertised as being already decided.

9 A slam dunk for the sugar beet industry and that the

10 decision from this hearing will be a decision made

11 years ago except for the convenience of the U.S.

12 District Court decision calling on the

13 Department of Agriculture to reconsider its

14 approval of GMO products. Your agency should know as

15 well as anybody in this room, we all read the same

16 papers after all, that the trust of the American public

17 in its government is at an all-time low. One of the

18 primary reasons for this is that Americans, from tea

19 partiers to occupiers, feel as though their basic

20 efforts have been abandoned by those who represent them

21 and that mega-corporations are taking over the basic

22 decisions of daily life: Earning a livelihood,

23 protecting one's family, enjoying basic health and

24 having the right to make one of the most personal,

25 intimate and fundamental decisions of all, what one

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1 very generous in testing whether this food is harmful

2 for us so I think it's also not very democratic.

3 Herbicides even in the nutritious crop, people are

4 saying they can't grow genetically modified sugar

5 beets. They might grow other things. Maybe they would

6 grow local food for Benton County for Oregon. I feel

7 like that would be a much more healthy and wonderful

8 use of our beautiful valley. Thank you.

9 MR. GEORGE: Sabrina Siegel followed by Teri

10 Burns.

11 MS. SIEGEL: Hello, Sabrina Siegel, S-a-b-r12 i-n-a, S-i-e-g-e-l, from GMO-Free Eugene. First of all,

13 I'd just like -- I just want to say what about growing

14 organically and without chemicals and hearing all these

15 chemical nightmare stories, anyway.

16 We reject the deregulation of GM sugar beets

17 as well as partial deregulation in the U.S. We don't

18 want GMO sugar beets or any GMO crops. The Willamette

19 Valley is recognized as a major center for seed

20 production around the world and is one of the most

21 agriculturally productive areas in the country. GMO

22 crops threaten this distinction as well as the

23 livelihood of those who work within our agriculture

24 industry. Pollen from GM crops cannot be contained.

25 As such, the farmers of our valley live in constant
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1 fear that their livelihoods will be stripped of them by

2 genetic contamination. These farmers support

3 themselves and their families and the local community

4 by producing non-transgenic seeds and crops for a

5 diverse range of customers. Their products become -- if

6 their products become contaminated, they lose those

7 clients who will search elsewhere for -- for these

8 products.

9 These farmers were once freely able to

10 provide. Since sugar beets are wind pollinated and

11 easily crossed with vegetable relatives, the prospect

12 of coexistence between GM crops and the conventional

13 crops is a total impossibility. The pollen from beets

14 has been shown to travel upward of 12 miles. Given

15 there is no relative distance that can isolate these

16 crops from conventional crops in the open environment.

17 With the highly concentrated seed and vegetable

18 production found in the Willamette Valley, this becomes

19 even more unrealistic. Due to this, the current USDA

20 requirements of the four or six mile isolation distance

21 between transgenic and conventional beets is not only

22 insufficient, but callow and irresponsible.

23 The proposed deregulation is not only a

24 direct threat to the livelihoods of Oregon farmers, but

25 it spells inevitable end of our illustrious

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1 they can't even produce as much food as convention and

2 organic farming methods. They're a step back in

3 agriculture masked within this misleading rhetoric of

4 the industry sales pitch of presupposed advancement

5 which is based upon no credible scientific data. They

6 are of a financial benefit to these corporations only,

7 to the biotech corporations. While the farmer, the

8 environment, the consumer and all else suffer great

9 loss.

10 Every independent explanation of the

11 purported benefits of these products have found them to

12 be lacking in every way. This technology is in the

13 infant stages of development. Its safety has not been

14 tested. Once it is released, it cannot be mitigated.

15 It places a direct threat upon our pre-existing

16 agricultural infrastructure and it presents not a

17 single, independently verified gain for our economic --

18 for our economy or food security. In addition, it has

19 been shown in --

20 MS. STANKIEWICZ-GABEL: Your time is up.

21 MS. SIEGEL -- several peer-viewed studies to

22 be a danger to human and animal health.

23 MR. GEORGE: I'm sorry. Time's up.

24 MS. SIEGEL: It is time that the USDA join

25 the many concerned countries of the world in taking

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1 livelihoods, illustrious and vibrant commercial and

2 organic farming industry. After all, many of the

3 countries that our state exports food crops to simply

4 do not accept GMO crops, you know, like the Asian

5 countries that we export to.

6 In addition to the issue of the threat to our

7 food is -- in addition to the issue of the threat to

8 our food sovereignty, safety and security through this

9 reckless deregulation of GM crops, our concerns raised

10 by the use of glyphosate that is associated with

11 Roundup Ready sugar beets and other GM crops.

12 According to the UDSA's own data, glyphosate usage has

13 increased since the introduction of GM crops in the

14 United States. Its overuse of glyphosate is not only -

15 - not only degrades the quality of our soils and

16 threatens public health in the form of lymphoma and

17 other health dangers, but aids in the creation of

18 highly, herbicide-resistant weeds that are becoming an

19 agricultural epidemic here. These thicker weeds force

20 farmers to pull them by hand or use toxic cocktails of

21 multiple chemicals to eradicate them.

22 Deregulation as well as partial deregulation

23 threatens our land and crops for absolutely no

24 reasonable gain. GM crops have not only failed to

25 reach the yields promised by biotechonolgy firms, but

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1 responsible and legally accountable action --

2 MR. GEORGE: Ms. Siegel, your time is up.

3 MS. SIEGEL: -- and apply the precautionary

4 principle --

5 MR. GEORGE: Ms. Siegel, excuse me.

6 MS. SIEGEL: -- to GM products in the U.S.

7 Thank you. I'm sorry.

8 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

9 MS. SIEGEL: Forgive me.

10 MR. GEORGE: We have to enforce this five11 minute rule so that everyone will have an opportunity

12 to speak. We're here to take your public comments as

13 well as show respect for everyone's point of view and

14 we want to make sure that everyone has a chance to make

15 their point.

16 Next up is Teri Burns and she'll be followed

17 by John Perdue.

18 MS. BURNS: Hello, Teri Burns, T-e-r-i, B-u19 r-n-s. I'm with GMO-Free Eugene. And we greatly

20 oppose the deregulation of genetically modified Roundup

21 Ready sugar beets in the U.S. and specifically, here,

22 in our state of Oregon.

23 The Willamette Valley is recognized as the

24 center of seed production and is known for its organic

25 seed production for the world. GM sugar beets would
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1 greatly destroy that recognition for Oregon.

2 Genetically modified sugar beets would threaten

3 Oregon's conventional and organic sugar beets, organic

4 chard and table beet crop as GM sugar beets cross

5 pollinate with related crops. Because GM sugar beets

6 are wind pollinated, contamination of these crops would

7 be inevitable as coexistence between genetically

8 modified crops and natural crops is virtually

9 impossible and we're seeing that already, here, in the

10 Willamette Valley.

11 This would threaten Oregon's 27 million

12 dollar speciality seed industry, specifically our

13 organic seed industry. In addition to the grave

14 economic impact of our market loss on farmers and

15 ultimately our state, as many countries in the world

16 including major importers of sugar beets, require

17 labeling or have bans on genetically modified

18 organisms.

19 In addition to this is the environmental

20 concern of added and excessive chemical spraying

21 associated with genetically modified crops. Again,

22 according to the USDA's own data, glyphosate usage, the

23 main ingredient in Roundup has increased, not decreased

24 since the introduction of GM crops in our country. And

25 with that, has come the creation of super weeds which

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1 food and we also raise sugar beets. We've been raising

2 sugar beets for 27 years and we've raised sugar beets

3 in the same farm as we raise table beets. One is a

4 weed to the other. We control them. We make sure that

5 they're not in the crops that they're not supposed to

6 be because they become weed to the other crops.

7 Canneries would not accept a sugar beet seed in their

8 crop. Neither would the sugar beet industry want table

9 beet seed in their crop. Sometimes our fears of the

10 unknown are our biggest problems. And we've been

11 genetically modifying seeds for probably 50 years or

12 better. They're called hybrids and because it's done in

13 a test tube and we fear that, we are afraid of it but

14 the truth of the matter is, is that when I was young,

15 by the turn of the century, they told us there wasn't

16 going to be enough food to go around. And because of

17 research from great universities like Oregon State, we

18 have increased our food production and have safer food

19 supply than we've had ever.

20 And so, you know, I urge the USDA to

21 deregulate the regulations they have on GMO products

22 right now, because we've raised sugar beets all these

23 years and never had cross pollination problems. These

24 gentlemen that have talked about the seed qualities and

25 stuff, if they had cross pollinated sugar beets they

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1 is a growing epidemic here in America. The weeds, with

2 nature's help, have developed a resistance to

3 glyphosate and many GM crop farmers have resulted to

4 pulling these super weeds by hand or having to use

5 cocktails of multiple chemicals.

6 Next, the biotech industry will be

7 introducing even deadlier and more hazardous chemicals

8 to be used with their genetically modified crops such

9 as diconda and 2, 4-D a major ingredient in Agent

10 Orange. The affects of being exposed to these

11 chemicals include birth defects, an increase in certain

12 cancers, including non-Hodgkins lymphoma and even

13 death. Genetically modified sugar beets or any GM

14 crops are not right for Oregon. They represent, and if

15 allowed, will definitely present negative economic

16 impact, a loss in market share and a direct hit to our

17 farmers and their choice of what they want to grow, our

18 state's resources, our food sovereignty and security,

19 and our basic right to choose what we eat. Thank you.

20 MR. GEORGE: John Perdue and the next speaker

21 will be Bill Mansour.

22 MR. PERDUE: Good afternoon. My name is John

23 Perdue, J-o-h-n, P-e-r-d-u-e. I farm 700 acres here in

24 the Willamette Valley. We raise bush beans, sweet

25 corn, table beets, pumpkin seeds, pumpkins for baby

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1 would not accept that seed. They have very high and

2 strict standards and as growers we adhere to those

3 strict standards and we keep our equipment clean and we

4 keep our fields clean and I just encourage

5 understanding here that we can all work together in

6 this valley. Thank you.

7 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

8 Bill Mansour who will be followed by Kristie

9 Steele.

10 MR. MANSOUR: Good afternoon. My name is

11 Bill Mansour. It's spelled like man sour, M-a-n-s-o-u12 r. The comments that I'm going to make this afternoon

13 are mine because I'm an emeritus professor, I don't

14 speak for Oregon State University. I believe that the

15 production of

16 Roundup Ready sugar beets for seed should be

17 allowed in the Willamette Valley as the instance of

18 deregulation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in

19 2005. I provide the following comments:

20 Regarding production aspects of Roundup Ready

21 sugar beet seed as related to the safety from

22 contamination of organically produced seed crops

23 although the question of human safety comes in,

24 genetically modified crops is not an issue in these

25 comments. There's no credible evidence of biological
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1 harm to people from genetically altered sugar beet

2 seed. From August 1970 to November of '99, I served as

3 the Oregon State University vegetable crop extension

4 specialist. My duties were primarily as a resource

5 person for the county extension staff and producers of

6 processing crops, fresh market crops, vegetable seed

7 crops, primarily in Oregon but I also worked

8 cooperatively with extension staff in the Pacific

9 Northwest.

10 For most of these 29 years, I, together with

11 colleagues of the Benton County Extension Office and

12 from the North Willamette Experiment Station, we are

13 representatives to a committee from about 20 different

14 seed companies called the Willamette Valley Specialty

15 Seed Crops Committee. As the university

16 representatives, our duties were to be as neutral

17 facilitators to the committee for the educational

18 research efforts and benefits -- to the benefit of the

19 companies and to their growers. A major thrust of work

20 of this committee was to establish isolation maps for

21 numerous types vegetable crops grown in the Willamette

22 Valley and river valleys. Large, detailed wall maps

23 were posted at county extension offices in Linn and

24 Marion County where a great majority of these crops are

25 grown. Postings of plantings and intentional plantings

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1 the years. This same protection from genetic

2 contamination has been afforded to small acreage crops

3 as is afforded to the predominantly, growing large

4 acreage commercial crops. Production of organic chard

5 or organic table beets or any other seed crops in the

6 organic market, consumer relief can be easily resolved

7 among the willing co-operators so long as historically

8 established isolation procedures are adhered to.

9 Willamette Valley is a large production area and can

10 easily accommodate various types of production.

11 Seed companies in the Willamette Valley are

12 proud of the quality of specialty seeds being produced

13 and have published a pamphlet advertising the

14 attributes of the Willamette Valley and list producers

15 as a quality seed production area.

16 As a result, among the review of Japanese

17 seed companies, produce specialty seed in the

18 Willamette Valley through local seed companies. Genetic

19 modified Roundup Ready sugar beets have been produced

20 without problems, to my knowledge, since they were

21 introduced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

22 There have been no known incidents of contamination of

23 conventional table beets with chard organically

24 produced table beets or chard other crops in the

25 organic specialty crop market.

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1 followed along the established procedures adopted by

2 the fieldman's group were made twice a year, spring and

3 fall, by certain deadlines. This provided an orderly

4 method of preventing contamination by insects or weeds

5 or wind cross pollination.

6 Actually, it served, also, as a method of

7 preventing the spread of certain diseases. The

8 committee also established an arbitration procedure by

9 which disputes could be resolved if intended plantings

10 were established or plantings were discovered which

11 might have resulted in contamination and if the seed

12 companies involved were not able to resolve the

13 disputes among themselves.

14 The committee was also involved in providing

15 educational needs for their growers about seed

16 production, dealing with issues about pollination,

17 weed, insect and disease control, good practices

18 regarding transportation of seed crops and the disposal

19 of seed cleaning waste so as not to create

20 contamination problems. They conducted research that

21 developed pesticide registrations for weed control in

22 some crops.

23 Isolation issues in the production of sugar

24 beets, table beets, red and yellow beets, various types

25 of chard as well as heirlooms have been worked out over

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1 There's no reason to believe that this would

2 change provided producers of these crops work

3 cooperatively in the production. In the future, we can

4 maintain the Willamette Valley as a unique, quality

5 production area. Thank you

6 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

7 Next is Kristie Steele and following her is

8 Chris Peterson, you put a question mark under the oral

9 comment. Chris, if you're here, and you would like to

10 speak you will be next. But if not, that's fine too.

11 MS. STEELE: Hello, my name is Kristie

12 Steele, K-r-i-s-t-i-e, S-t-e-e-l-e. I work at

13 Hummingbird Wholesale an organic distributor in Eugene.

14 I volunteer at the Willamette Valley Sustainable Food

15 Alliance Business Association with over 50 natural food

16 businesses in the Lane County area. I'm also a member

17 of the Provender Alliance which is a similar

18 association for the Pacific Northwest. The natural

19 foods industry is really strong in this area. It's one

20 of the few industries that has grown throughout

21 economic recession. My company has grown over 20

22 percent over the year for the past five years while

23 other companies are going out of business.

24 Natural food is not a trend. The people want

25 it. And the people don't believe that GMOs are
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1 natural. You'd be hearing from a lot more of us today

2 if this hearing weren't planned the week before

3 Thanksgiving. It's our busiest week the whole year.

4 There are lots of people in the association I mentioned

5 earlier who would be here if they didn't have loads of

6 work to do today.

7 The buzz in this industry is that GMO

8 technology is still really new and the truth is that we

9 don't know what the long-term implications are. We

10 can't say for sure which, you know, despite all the

11 great skills that our farmers have, I know you guys are

12 specialists at your job, but like somebody said

13 earlier, accidents happen. We're not perfect. It's my

14 hope today that we can make decisions based on ethics

15 until we have enough information to make a truly

16 informed decision, rather than making a decision based

17 on money and risking our own health, the health of our

18 land, and the livelihood of the small organic farmers.

19 I'd like to ask the farmers here today who

20 have given success stories about Roundup Ready beets

21 could consider the bigger picture; the long-term health

22 of the land and prosperity for all farmers. There are

23 companies out there like mine looking for farmers to

24 partner with and grow natural foods and use natural

25 practices and we want to help you make more money doing

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1 published, then realized ways which the application of

2 science, especially in the interest of large

3 corporations has failings. Now, I'm an advocate for

4 family farmers, community food security and public

5 health.

6 I'm here this evening because after decades

7 of federal policies that have helped large corporations

8 at the extreme detriment of family farmers, GMO crops

9 really would be the final death nail for our local food

10 security.

11 The proposed action to deregulate is a

12 handout to the few and unacceptable and unconscionable

13 risk to family farmers and public health. Do not

14 deregulate Roundup Ready sugar beets and stop allowing

15 genetically modified sugar beets. Do not allow any

16 genetically modified crops in Oregon or the U.S.

17 Genetically modified crops have irreversible

18 and likely -- irreversible consequences in likely

19 individual and community fatality in the long term due

20 to increased pesticide poisoning, defective genetically

21 modified crops themselves, and production in crop

22 genetic diversity. The USDA recognizes that

23 genetically modified sugar beet pollen travels further

24 than the current buffer mentioned and the glyphosate

25 usage has increased upon genetically modified crops.

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1 it.

2 Also consider what somebody said earlier

3 about labeling. Studies have shown that the American

4 public will not buy food that's labeled GMO. So what

5 if that law changes? How is that going to affect your

6 farms and your livelihood? And I also want to urge you

7 to learn more about Monsanto because this company is

8 not on your side. It's done horrible things to farmers

9 and any company that's developed something called a

10 terminator gene so that farmers cannot save their seed

11 is not on your side. They are all about making money.

12 I ask the USDA to do the right thing and do not

13 deregulate GMO, Roundup Ready sugar beets. Thank you.

14 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

15 Chris, are you here? Do you care to speak?

16 CHRIS: No.

17 MR. GEORGE: Samantha Surrillo, Charillo,

18 perhaps? She will be followed by Leda Hermecz.

19 MS. CHIRILLO: Hi, my name is Samantha

20 Chirillo, spelled C-h-i-r-i-l-l-o. I reside in Eugene,

21 Oregon. I have a bachelor's degree in microbiology and

22 a minor in biochemistry and molecular biology from Penn

23 State University. A master's degree in biology and

24 public administration from the University of Oregon. I

25 worked in biomedical research for eight years and

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1 Clean water and food are basic human needs.

2 Deregulation as proposed violates basic human rights.

3 Deregulation also violates fair business practices

4 because of the presence of genetically modified crops

5 violates the ability of family farmers to grow what

6 they choose and to be able to compete. It forces

7 extreme risks in cost to them that they cannot afford.

8 And what will be the affect of reduction in exports to

9 a country that has stricter policies than ours?

10 It seems to me that this proposal is really

11 at the benefit of a few at the expense of the many. If

12 I followed my career path I would be a USDA official

13 but I do not want to put my community survival at risk

14 or public health at risk. So I ask the decision15 makers; whose interest are you looking out for, the 99

16 percent or the one percent? Who are are you?

17 Regulators in the public interest or Monsanto's

18 minions?

19 MR. GEORGE: Leda Hermecz and she will be

20 followed by Andrew Still.

21 MS. HERMECZ: Hello, my name is Leda Hermecz,

22 that's L-e-d-a, H-e-r-m-e-c-z. I am a food consultant

23 in Eugene, Oregon, as well as the sustainability

24 coordinator for Sweet Life Patisserie in Eugene,

25 Oregon. I sit on the board of the Willamette Valley
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1 Sustainable Food Alliance with Sweet Life Patisserie.

2 We employ about 60 people and we are very proud, very

3 proud to be a member of the alliance.

4 Over the past year, we have phased out the

5 use of all GMO ingredients at our bakery including

6 switching over from sugar beet sugar to cane sugar to

7 avoid the contamination of GMOs. We use about 25,000

8 pounds of sugar a year. So I'm here to say that I am

9 representing one business in the Willamette Valley. I

10 own a consulting business and I do plan to continue to

11 urge my clients to consider using alternatives to RSBs

12 because of the potential health dangers especially when

13 glyphosates are concerned. We oppose the deregulation

14 of RSBs. Thank you.

15 MR. GEORGE: Thank you. Andrew Still who

16 will be followed by Sara Kleeger.

17 MR. STILL: Okay. Hello, my name is Andrew

18 Still, S-t-i-l-l. Owner and operator of Adaptive Seeds

19 with my wife near Sweet Home, Oregon. We have grown a

20 wide variety of GM-free vegetable, herb, grain, and

21 legume seed and which include beta vulgaris, beets and

22 chard. We currently cannot grow beets or chard due to

23 the -- I guess I would say the pestilence problem of GM

24 pollen. Roundup Ready beets are a pest to me and my

25 thousands of customers. The Environmental Impact

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1 free chard or beets as a vegetable producing farmer.

2 Thank you.

3 MR. GEORGE: Next is Sara Kleeger and she

4 will be followed by Frank Morton.

5 MS. KLEEGER: My name is Sara Kleeger and

6 it's K-l-e-e-g-e-r. In the fall of 2009, my husband

7 and I signed a lease for land near Sweet Home, Oregon,

8 with the intention to produce organic vegetable, beet,

9 grain and specialty seed crops. We knew that Beta seed

10 crops had been grown on one acre of the 30 acre

11 property under a subcontract from the previous owners.

12 After two growing seasons, we have discovered hundreds

13 of sugar beets volunteers. Andrew just showed one of

14 them to you. Many of them are turning up in land that

15 has not, to our knowledge, been used to grow Beta seed

16 crops. So the seeds have either persisted in the soil

17 for many years or they somehow managed to move.

18 Under the partial deregulation of GE sugar

19 beets that has been in effect since 2010, Roundup Ready

20 sugar beet fields are supposed to be policed frequently

21 for volunteers. Several people providing testimony

22 here today have said that that happens. But on our

23 farm, we have not had one Beta seed representative walk

24 our fields, not even one time. Instead we are left to

25 be responsible to control this plant pest in our crops.

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1 Statement does not adequately address the pollen

2 trespass. Knowing that three miles is not satisfactory

3 isolation, that seed requires zero contamination. The

4 inevitable gene flow that will happen with a non-GMC

5 will cause irreparable harm and will prevent me from

6 growing GM-free beets and chard for seed.

7 Coexistence is a great idea but this

8 Environmental Impact Statement does not make it seem

9 plausible. The Environmental Impact Statement does not

10 adequately address the active problem of sugar beets,

11 beta vulgaris, volunteering for years and crops where

12 they have been grown in the past. For example, in my

13 hand, these plants do have the ability in the

14 Willamette Valley to produce GM pollen and contaminate

15 non-GM beets and chard seed. We have seen these

16 volunteers in fields which have not grown GM beet seed

17 for two years as well as in places for three to four

18 years in past fields. This is a pest for me.

19 Although, sugar beets are grown as an annual for

20 vegetable production or whatever you want to call it,

21 seed production is different. I have observed beta

22 vulgaris as an annual, biennial, and as a perennial.

23 This increases the chance of pollen contamination. If

24 GM beets are deregulated, I will not be able to grow

25 GM-free seed and I will likely not be able to grow GM69

1 On my farm, GE sugar beets have proven themselves to be

2 a plant pest. Because of this, my ability as a grower

3 to produce certain varieties of chard and table beets

4 has been limited as I cannot risk the possibility of GE

5 sugar beets showing up in related food crops.

6 My ability to grow chard and table beet seed

7 has also been limited because of the presence of

8 volunteer GE beets on my farm. The regulations

9 currently in effect are not being enforced. As a

10 farmer and a seed producer, I encourage the USDA to

11 fully regulate and enforce current regulations for the

12 H7-1 sugar beets. Thank you.

13 MR. GEORGE: Thank you. Frank Morton

14 followed by Leah Rodgers.

15 MR. MORTON: Hi, my name is Frank Morton and

16 I'm an organic seed grower --

17 MR. GEORGE: You want to spell that for us,

18 Frank, just in case.

19 MR. MORTON: M-o-r-t-o-n.

20 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

21 MR. MORTON: I'm an organic seed grower here

22 in the Willamette Valley. I'm a member of the

23 Willamette Valley Specialty Seed Association. I have

24 sat on the rule making committee of the Willamette

25 Valley Specialty Seed Association. And in fact, I was
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1 sitting on the seed -- the isolation committee when it

2 was first announced that Roundup Ready beets were going

3 to be grown in Oregon. I had only been a member of the

4 WVSSA for one month when the announcement came to the

5 whole organization's surprise that Roundup Ready beets

6 were not only going to be grown here, they had already

7 been planted and we were not informed.

8 At the time that we were informed, 30 percent

9 of the ground in the valley for sugar beets had already

10 been planted and nobody had been alerted to that. So

11 I'm glad you guys or finally here except you should

12 have been here before you deregulated this crop the

13 first time because there was no EIS. And because the

14 environmental assessment which the court described as

15 cursory at best, because that assessment did not even

16 take into account the seed growing phase of the sugar

17 beet lifestyle, nobody in this valley was asked whether

18 we would feel the impact.

19 Then we were told, "Oh, yeah. We've already

20 planted and we want extra isolation because we are

21 afraid that the current five mile limit is not enough."

22 This is what a member of the sugar beet seed industry

23 said to our group. "We think we need six miles," that

24 representative said. And the rule committee that I sat

25 on discussed this, and weirdly, decided to make the

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1 Willamette Valley, they can go to Washington State and

2 get chard and beet seed. They can go to California and

3 get chard seed. They don't have to buy it from us. In

4 2009, the sales of my beet and chard seed were at their

5 high. They had gone up like this. And in 2009, when

6 this issue came to the public attention, they went like

7 this. I have emails that have been forwarded to me by

8 my customers asking, "Where can we go find beet and

9 chard seed organic other than the Willamette Valley?"

10 Because you know why.

11 So I think my environment's been affected. I

12 think the pollen of these crops is a pest. And I think

13 that this product should be re-regulated.

14 MR. GEORGE: Thank you. Leah Rodgers and

15 she'll be followed by -- I'm sorry. I cannot read --

16 P. Dantos? Anyway.

17 MR. ROGERS: Hi, I'm Leah Rodgers, L-e-a-h,

18 R-o-d-g-e-r-s. I'm the Field Director for Friends of

19 Family Farmers. On behalf of our board and socially

20 responsible family farmers in central Oregon, we would

21 like to thank you for this opportunity to provide

22 comments and feedback regarding the proposed

23 deregulation of genetically modified Roundup Ready

24 sugar beets.

25 Friends of Family Farmers is Oregon's largest

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1 isolation distance three miles. So I have never really

2 understood how the environmental impact statement that

3 you produced, which is just like the environmental

4 assessment that you produced a year ago, to get around

5 the court order that you cease and desist until the EIS

6 was done. We are not being protected.

7 If this product is not regulated, we will be

8 returning to the situation as it was in December 2006,

9 when out of the blue, somebody let the seed industry in

10 the valley know that we had been visited. It's going

11 to return us right to that same place except at that

12 time, five miles were required between Swiss chard and

13 conventional sugar beets. Weirdly, after they went

14 GMO, it became three miles between sugar beets with GMO

15 and non-GMO sugar beets.

16 Dr. Mallory-Smith studies gene flow. That's

17 what she does and she has said that in this valley, if

18 GMOs are deregulated, gene flow between GM crops and

19 non-GM crops will occur. Dr. Smith suggested that we

20 must come up with a tolerance level that organic

21 growing will tolerate because that's the reality of

22 what we're going to face.

23 Well, we don't want any GMOs in our seeds.

24 Our customers do not want them in the seeds that they

25 buy from us and if they can't buy pure seed in the

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1 organization representing family scale agriculture.

2 Our mission is to protect sensible policies, programs

3 and regulations that protect and expand the ability of

4 Oregon family farmers in order to run a successful

5 land-based enterprise while providing safe and

6 nutritious food for all Oregonians.

7 We have over 2300 supporters spread across

8 every county of Oregon and our membership is diverse.

9 Representing family farmers and ranchers of all size

10 that share the common value of producing food in a way

11 that is socially and ecologically responsible. Our

12 membership is not only a membership of geographically

13 and skill diverse, it also represents farmers of all

14 age and production types and it spans political lines.

15 Agriculture is a vital component of the

16 Oregon economy. It fuels our state engines and

17 provides a valuable livelihood for families in our

18 state. Family farms has been fundamental to the

19 integrity of our land base, the make-up of our

20 communities and the richness of our culture. The

21 Willamette Valley is one of the most productive and

22 diverse agricultural geographic areas in the nation. It

23 is a world leader in seed and specialty crops.

24 The farmers that we represent have identified

25 genetically modified crops as a major threat to farm
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1 and land viability. They have identified GMO isolation

2 and restriction that is years of viability of seed and

3 crops by top priorities. It was our farmers' opinion

4 that there isn't sound science available today that can

5 adequately demonstrate the full impact of introducing

6 genetically modified crops without an extremely high

7 chance of cross contamination. The ruination of the

8 organic agriculture industry in the area is likely.

9 Friends of Family Farmers does not want genetically

10 modified Roundup Ready sugar beets introduced in

11 Oregon. Protecting these lands for purposes of local

12 agriculture guarantees jobs, not just for the farmers

13 and their families, but for the number of businesses

14 both rural and urban who rely on the businesses from

15 family farms for survival.

16 This decision will have significant impact on

17 the entire region. It is USDA's responsibility to

18 listen to us and protect all aspects of agriculture.

19 We should not allow one side of agriculture to

20 potentially ruin another industry in the name of

21 Roundup Ready. This isn't minimal impact. Please hear

22 the socially responsible organic and sustainable

23 section of agriculture as carefully as big industry.

24 We, as farmers, work the land, support the land and

25 know that conflict and potential financial devastation

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1 might be GMO seed already. Even when we have those

2 maps and pin the little flags of the locations of the

3 seed crops, not all farmers follow that. There are

4 farms growing out there that are not on those maps that

5 are going sugar beets. The biggest issue for me is the

6 pollen drift and then policing. Lots of you probably

7 have seen on the side of the road or observed some

8 beans that have fallen off the truck.

9 The other issue is birds. I have lots of

10 weed crops that show up that are new to me because

11 there has been newer crops growing rather than just

12 grass seed, such as corn and other crops, bringing

13 other weeds and the birds drop those on my land. I

14 don't believe that it is even possible for us to truly

15 control it and we do not have a way to police it.

16 There is not policing going on now and I can't see it

17 in the future. It's cost prohibitive. So please do not

18 deregulate Roundup Ready. Please restrict it more for

19 the sake of all small farms, conventional and organic.

20 Thank you.

21 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

22 Next is Aleyon Auchanbault. Auchanbault? Is

23 that anyone's name is this room? A-l-e-y-o-n it looks

24 like is the first name. Well

25 --

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1 will arise from the introduction of genetically

2 modified crops and, specifically, Roundup Ready sugar

3 beets in the Willamette Valley.

4 We implore you to push back against the

5 pressure of the green light of Roundup Ready sugar

6 beets and protect the family farmers of Oregon. Thank

7 you.

8 MR. GEORGE: Thank you. Okay. Next, this is

9 very hard to read, but it looks like B.D. Aude, A-u-d10 e, it looks like, citizen? Anyone here? No. Okay. In

11 that case we will move on to Cynthia Kapple. She will

12 be followed by Auchenbault, Aleyon Auchenbault.

13 MS. KAPPLE: Hello, I'm Cynthia Kapple, C-y14 n-t-h-i-a, K-a-p-p-l-e. I have a small farm, Midway

15 Farms, out on Highway 22 between Corvallis and Albany.

16 Our farm is organic. We also have many other farms

17 that sell through us. We also are running a community

18 table at the Albany Farmer's Market.

19 The problem with the GMO Roundup Ready crops

20 are that they not only contaminate farmers that are

21 organic but also conventional farmers that do not wish

22 to grow GMO. I not only grow the crops for selling

23 product, but also feed the fodder to my animals and

24 then also I save money on seed. I worry that because

25 there is seed growing down the road from us that there

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1 AUDIENCE: Can you repeat the name.

2 MR. GEORGE: A-l-e-y-o-n looks like the first

3 name and A-u-c-h-a-n-b-a-u-l-t, perhaps for the last

4 name. No? Okay. We'll move on. Eric Lezynski,

5 please and that will be followed by Ted Hale, or Hake,

6 perhaps.

7 MR. LEZYNSKI: Hello, I'm Eric Lezynski,

8 that's L-e-z-y-n-s-k-i. And it's kind of hard to know

9 where to start. I have a lot of issues with this EIS,

10 but I'd like to focus on three main things here.

11 First of all, in the EIS it talks about

12 socioeconomic impacts to farmers due to limited

13 availability and uses and this is basically an argument

14 for continuing the deregulation in full deregulation.

15 And I would like to point out that these socioeconomic

16 impacts due to -- the socioeconomic impacts due to

17 limited availability of conventional beet seed and

18 limited availability of other herbicides, this is all

19 caused by original release of Roundup Ready sugar beets

20 before they should have been and getting them out in

21 the market before the EIS was made. So, you know, if

22 the EIS had been done in the first place, these

23 problems wouldn't be a factor and these wouldn't be,

24 you know, in the EIS now -- as they are now.

25 Secondly, on the issue of usage of
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1 glyphosate, in the EIS it's predicted that fewer

2 herbicides will be used but a greater quantity of the

3 one of glyphosate, greater quantity overall. And I

4 would like to point to the European Journal of Agronomy

5 and include in issue three that deals with glyphosate

6 interaction with physiology, nutrition and diseases of

7 plants. And specifically an article entitled,

8 Glyphosate-resistant Crop Interactions with Rhizosphere

9 Microorganisms.

10 In the EIS it says, "Glyphosate is not

11 expected to pose acute or chronic risk to birds,

12 reptiles and mammals, terrestrial and aquatic

13 invertebrates, fish amphibians and microorganisms."

14 However, there are numerous papers in this Journal that

15 finds, "Increases of fusarium after glyphosate

16 applications. Increase of antagonistic bacterial

17 interactions, reduction and inoculation of roots and

18 many other things." This is just one article.

19 So I challenge the notion that the increased

20 used of glyphosate is, you know, necessarily a good

21 thing here. And I'd like to end with the issue of

22 contamination, that contamination won't occur with the

23 restrictions that are currently in place or with any

24 restrictions. I have here a court document from the

25 sugar beet case. This paper is titled Opposition to

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1 MR. GEORGE: Thank you.

2 Ted Hale.

3 MR. HAKE: Hake.

4 MR. GEORGE: Hake. Thank you.

5 MR. HAKE: I'm Ted Hake, H-a-k-e. Sorry

6 about my sloppy handwriting. I'm the Production

7 Manager for Universal Seed Company, a national seed

8 company located here in the Willamette Valley and we

9 would like to comment on the request for non-regulated

10 status of the glyphosate tolerant H7-1 sugar beets and

11 specifically the production of seed from sugar beets.

12 While Universal Seed as a company is not

13 taking an official position on GMO beets, our main

14 concern, and one of our customers and growers, is the

15 possibility of crop crossing with the H7-1, with our

16 hybrid table beet and hybrid Swiss chard seed here in

17 the valley. Our average annual acreage and value of

18 the aforementioned crops is not insignificant. In the

19 petitioner's request and other testimony that's been

20 given or will be given here, the OSCS and WVSSA,

21 isolation standards have been referenced. It mentions

22 the OSCS standards for seed certification as a maximum

23 of 1.9 miles for non-sugar beet Beta species, to sugar

24 beets produced for stock seed.

25 The Willamette Valley's Specialty Seed

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1 Client's -- Plaintiffs's Motion for Permanent Relief

2 just technical legal stuff. The name of this section

3 is Intervenors, which means Monsanto, concedes

4 transgenic contamination is unavoidable as an

5 acceptable part of producing Roundup Ready sugar beets.

6 In its order, the court found that irreparable harm

7 sufficiently likely. This is in a quote. "Discovery

8 has uncovered further conclusive evidence that

9 contamination is not only likely but a common and

10 continuing occurrence and that Intervenors containment

11 efforts are ineffective. Seed companies have not been

12 able to isolate the sources of contaminants entering

13 their own fields it is impossible to know how many

14 other farmers crops have been contaminated.

15 Stewardship techniques and USDA guidelines which

16 Intervenors tout APHIS espouses as proposed protective

17 measures, have repeatedly proven ineffective."

18 It then lists the instances of contamination

19 which have been redacted to protect the privacy of the

20 companies that -- but these are sugar beet

21 contamination events. And it ends by saying,

22 "Moreover, the whole history of GE crops is literally

23 one contamination event after another, just like the

24 assurances of their impossibility for this or that

25 reason." That's all.

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1 Association has an isolation distance requirement of

2 four miles between H7-1 and non-sugar beet Beta

3 species. Both of these references are intended in the

4 request to show the possibility of these crops

5 coexisting here in the Willamette Valley under strict

6 supervision of seed companies.

7 Unfortunately, we have to disagree with this.

8 The seed certification isolation for Beta species,

9 while certainly not laughable, are not in use by any

10 vegetable seed companies that we're aware of. The

11 harsh reality is the testing of non-sugar beet Beta

12 species for the years 2009 and 2010, we found 20

13 percent of the field to be contaminated with the

14 Roundup Ready gene. This occurred even when stricter

15 WVSSA guidelines were followed. The testing of the

16 2011 crop is not yet completed.

17 This is a very serious matter for our

18 customers, our growers, and for Universal Seed as a

19 company. We feel that the USDA needs to further study

20 the possibilities about crossing and that this needs to

21 be taken into account before any further steps are

22 taken from deregulation. Thank you.

23 MR. GEORGE: Jean Oxley. Jean Oxley. Please.

24 Jean Oxley is not here?

25 MS. OXLEY: Hi, my name is Jean Oxley. That's
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2 MR. GEORGE: Jean with a "j?"

3 MS. OXLEY: With a "j." Okay. I'm not used

4 to speaking public. I'm not a farmer. I am a

5 community member here in Corvallis. I'm a health care

6 provider in the Willamette Valley and I want you to

7 understand the community that you're addressing.

8 You're addressing a community that is very, very

9 involved in a local level. We have a thriving farmer's

10 market. People like to eat organic here. They care

11 about their health and for the number of people that

12 have presented, come up here statistically, and

13 presented their thoughts and not being for this

14 deregulation and not even allowing GMOs in Oregon, for

15 every one of those, there's 50 to 100 other people that

16 they represent that are not here. And statistically,

17 those that are up here wanting to deregulate the GMO

18 and allow them in Oregon, there's about --

19 statistically, what we are seeing is what's represented

20 out there. We care about Oregon. We do not want GMOs

21 here. They are not well tested. The contamination has

22 taken effect like, in Mexico, in their ancient

23 varieties of corn which they tried to protect but are

24 now contaminated and once it's done, it's done. There

25 is not enough health lead studies that have been done

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1 right by Monsanto. That's just the truth. GMOs have

2 not been effectively studied. We do not know their

3 long-term consequences. They are not part of God's

4 creation. We messed with them and we don't know long5 term effects and we are not willing to take that risk.

6 Our children are not worth that risk. That's all I

7 have to say.

8 MR. GEORGE: Is there anyone that has signed

9 up to speak that I have missed? You signed up?

10 AUDIENCE MEMBER: I was the last one in.

11 MR. GEORGE: Well, I think Neil just went to

12 get the sign-up sheet. I think we're going to solve

13 that right now. Jayne Miller? If there is anyone else

14 who wishes to speak, make your way to the microphone or

15 just see Neil and we will be sure to hear from you.

16 Go ahead, Jayne.

17 MS. MILLER: My name is Jayne Miller, J-a-y18 n-e, M-i-l-l-e-r. I'm Director for Marion Soil and

19 Water Conservation District 4. I'm a cattle rancher's

20 daughter. I grew up here in Oregon on our family's

21 7,000 acre cattle ranch and I became an organic farmer

22 by accident. I became an organic farmer because I

23 foolishly went to work for a pulp and paper industry

24 and got contaminated and could no longer eat foods that

25 were grown in herbicides or pesticides. I couldn't

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1 on GMOs. The long-term consequences for health care --

2 we have an epidemic developing in Oregon. We have one

3 in 99 children with autism and that doesn't even

4 include all of the other nervous system disorders,

5 ADHD, and all the other types of disorders that are

6 taking place right now in pediatrics.

7 I also work in geriatrics. I know that we

8 have an epidemic starting of auto-immune diseases and

9 these are not only happening to old people, they're

10 happening to the young people. These are the 20-year

11 olds and 30-year olds. I bet everyone in this room can

12 say they know someone with Lupus or MS, not to mention

13 the health disorders like cancer. We have a problem.

14 GMOs have not been studied well enough. We are not

15 guinea pigs. Oregon does not want GMOs here and if

16 they do deregulate them, the fight for this will not

17 end here. It will go on and eventually we will win

18 because we do not want them here and they won't be

19 here.

20 Look at the farmer's in the corn state. They

21 live in fear. They are no longer saving their own

22 seeds because they're afraid to save their own seeds.

23 Conventional farmers, their farms are polluted because

24 a passing-by truck tips over and seeds are carried or

25 blown into their field. They're being sued left and

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1 even go into a restaurant and eat because of the

2 bleach. I became so chemically sensitive that I

3 couldn't eat anymore of what we consider now only

4 traditional foods which are foods grown with chemicals

5 which is a blessing.

6 I met folks like Harry MacCormack, over

7 there, who taught me how to organic farm. And I

8 thought, "By golly, if I'm going to survive, I'm going

9 to have to start growing my own food and eat organic

10 and support the organic community." I could eat

11 organic food and I became well again, but to this day,

12 over 20 years later, I can't eat foods grown in

13 chemicals. There are chemical-sensitive people out

14 there that are not being addressed and who are not

15 going to survive unless there's a new type of food

16 form.

17 We are going to have generations of people

18 who will not remember what it's like to taste, really,

19 a naturally grown carrot. It will taste like Roundup

20 Ready because that's what will be available. We are

21 not addressing the land ethics. You own land, you take

22 care of it for the future. You don't introduce

23 chemicals that are going to pollute our waters, kill

24 the soil and the lifeforms in soil and call this good

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1 I've had a lot of grants, signed a lot of

2 grants at Marion Soil and Water Conservation District

3 trying to deal with the herbicides and pesticides that

4 are entering our waterways. I mean, really, it's

5 almost pathetic, in my opinion, to try and clean up the

6 mess. We already know that herbicides and pesticides

7 were supposed to be the answer in the 1900s for our

8 food shortages. We already know they are not. We

9 already know that they polluted our soil and our

10 waters. They are making people sick. They are making

11 our children sick. They are making our children be

12 born sick. And now they're telling us that GMO is the

13 new answer for food shortage and it's not.

14 If you allow GMO sugar beets in, it will not

15 be the only GMO. It will open the door for more and I

16 know this because, well, my brother is the CEO of

17 United Grain. He has sold grain for decades out of

18 Oregon and he's changing the guidelines in Vancouver,

19 right now, with a mega grain bin to hold your future

20 GMO wheat. This is not the end. Don't let them fool

21 you. Don't let them pull the wool over your eyes by

22 making it awkward for you to be here tonight. You

23 know, why is this scheduled from 4:00 through the

24 dinner hour? There are a lot of people who wanted to

25 be here and represent themselves but you need to make

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1 grower, someone who doesn't want to eat those things

2 and wants to know what they are eating, they're being

3 infringed upon. We have the right to know what we're

4 eating and we have the right to choose what we are

5 eating and there are people trying to take this away

6 from us and this is what deregulation will continue to

7 do.

8 The thought that there won't be contamination

9 is really ignorant. There has already been

10 contamination. This has already been documented since

11 the year 2000. There has been contamination in organic

12 food crops of GMO crops. There has been contamination

13 in the food supply that were not meant to contain GMO

14 foods.

15 So right now a lot -- the big concern of

16 people is significant financial impact. This is

17 something that can have significant, negative financial

18 impact in Oregon. In 2009, there were 11 Canada flax

19 shipments to Europe and some other countries were found

20 to contain GMO flax. That GMO flax had been created in

21 the 1990s and it was told -- Canada decided that it

22 didn't want it. So they told the growers of it they

23 were all supposed to turn it in and destroy it all.

24 So in the 1990s, this product of GMO flax was

25 supposed to have been destroyed and in 2009, it pops up

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1 it more amenable.

2 Why isn't Monsanto labeling their foods,

3 "Hey, this has GMO in it." Why are we being denied our

4 option? We should not be denied our option. Take care

5 of the land and the land will take care of you. That

6 is not GMO -- a GMO or Monsanto's motto. Land ethics,

7 that's what must come first if we are to survive as a

8 nation. If we kill our soil, we kill our water with

9 this GMO, we will kill ourselves and there is no

10 turning back. Thank you.

11 MR. GEORGE: If there is anyone who would

12 like to speak who has not signed up, please see Neil in

13 the back of the room, please.

14 MS. GOODWIN: Hi, I'm Kim Goodwin, G-o-o-d-w15 i-n. That was so well spoken. It's kind of hard to

16 follow after it, but we have a bully in the room. We

17 have someone who is essentially the smoker on the

18 airplane. To say there can be a non-smoking section

19 and a smoking section is akin -- on an airplane, is

20 akin to what we are saying with GMO crops and non-GMO

21 crops.

22 The only people not infringed on by these GMO

23 crops are people who are growing them. Anyone who does

24 not want to utilize them, be it the conventional

25 grower, a conventional seed grower, an organic seed

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1 in flax shipments to Europe. Europe is testing for

2 these and Europe did not allow flax shipment with GMOs

3 in them. This is just one of numerous, numerous

4 consequences. This has a significant financial impact

5 in Canada and the flax industry.

6 A couple of things have been brought up that

7 I think should be looked at a little more closely. One

8 of which is comparison of hybrid seed and hybrid plants

9 and GMOs. Any single one of us can grow hybrid or we

10 can develop our own strain of hybrid plants. I do

11 that. That is something that I enjoy doing. I enjoy

12 hybridizing plants, finding new plant varieties,

13 developing plants that are new to our area. This is

14 something any one of us can do. I'd be willing to bet

15 that none of us can create a GMO in our backyard. So

16 this is a significantly different process. This is

17 something that we keep hearing that there are no

18 studies showing that GMO sugar beets could be dangerous

19 to you and your health. There aren't any studies

20 showing this. It hasn't been done.

21 Why not take the proactive standpoint of

22 investigating something thoroughly first before

23 releasing it on the public. We have a terrible history

24 of releasing poisonous or dangerous things on to the

25 public and discovering it from the government
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1 afterwards. I don't want to be one of those people who

2 end up being affected by that. I don't think anybody

3 in this room wants to be affected by that and it would

4 be good to look a little more closely before deciding

5 something is safe.

6 So obviously I'm against deregulation. I hope

7 that sugar beets will continue to be -- the GMO sugar

8 beets will continue to be deregulated. And I'm against

9 the deregulation of any GMO crops. Oregon has a very,

10 very diverse wonderful set of plants that it can grow.

11 We are one of the most diverse areas in the country.

12 This can significantly, financially impact everybody in

13 the produce and safe seed, every company that grows and

14 distributes seeds, every company that wants -- or

15 person that wants to start an organic farm. We don't

16 need GMO sugar beets in Oregon. Please do not

17 deregulate them. Thank you.

18 MR. GEORGE: Is there anyone else who would

19 like to speak that perhaps I have missed?

20 No. If not, then I would like to thank all

21 of our speakers today and all of you for coming out and

22 participating in this process. We value your opinions.

23 We would like to thank all of our speakers for their

24 conviction and eloquence and thank you for coming out.

25 We will not adjourn because we are here until

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1 CERTIFICATE OF NOTARY PUBLIC

2 I, Kimberly R. McLain, the officer before whom the

3 foregoing deposition was taken, do hereby certify that

4 the witness whose testimony appears in the foregoing

5 deposition was duly sworn by me; that the testimony of

6 said witness was taken by me in stenotypy and

7 thereafter reduced to typewriting under my direction;

8 that said deposition is a true record of the testimony

9 given by said witness; that I am neither counsel for,

10 related to, nor employed by and of the parties to the

11 action in which this deposition was taken; and,

12 further, that I am not a relative or employee of any

13 counsel or attorney employed by the parties hereto, nor

14 financially or otherwise interested in the outcome of

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3 and thank you for coming.

4 I will remind you that if you have written

5 comments that you would like to give, perhaps you

6 didn't care to speak, you can put those in the comment

7 box in the back.

8 Thank you all for being a part of our

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