OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ECONOMIST NEWS RELEASE

Release #3-2003
Raymond L. Bridge (202) 720-5447
rbridge@oce.usda.gov

	WASHINGTON, June 13, 2003-The June 17 public workshop of the Commission on 
the Application of Payment Limitations for Agriculture will take place in the 
Jefferson Auditorium of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's South Building, 
Independence Avenue between 12th and 14th Streets, SW, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 
p.m.  Please note the new room location. 
AGENDA

9:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Expert Presentations to the Commission
Dr. Mark Lange, President, National Cotton Council and David Stanford, Vice 
President, Plains Cotton Cooperative

Mr. Roger Johnson, Commissioner of Agriculture, State of North Dakota

Patrick Westhoff, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, University of 
Missouri  and Iowa State University; and James Richardson, Professor, Texas A&M 
University

Dr. Daryll Ray, Professor and Blasingame Chair of Excellence, and Director of 
the      Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee

Dr. Daniel Sumner, Professor and Frank H. Buck, Jr. Chair in Agricultural 
Business, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of 
California, Davis; and Director of the Agricultural Issues Center, University of 
California 

Dr. Bruce Gardner, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland

12:30 to 1:15 p.m. Lunch on Your Own

1:15 to 3:00 p.m. Comments from the Public

     For more information, please call or e-mail Shirley Brown at (202) 720-4164 
or shirley.brown@usda.gov