I am a newly elected chairman of a newly organized -- what we call a POCO, producer owned and controlled organization of Midwest family farms. Our mission is to facilitate the movement of U.S. agricultural producers to the domestic and global marketplace in order to market agricultural identity-preserved products to better satisfy both the customers and the agricultural producers' needs. In essence we put the local producers in a much greater role of marketing their own products.

I prepared a brief description of our activities to give you an idea of my own and our company's perspective. We preserve the identity of the crops we grow in order to turn them into products, whether it is a seed product or (inaudible) going to our Japanese tofu processors that make it into tofu. We do that by providing quality in the external traits and the internal traits of the products being sold, in essence providing value to our customers. By keeping the identity preserved, we thus turn our commodities into a product.

Commodity prices at all time lows and increasing competition in agricultural production from other countries around the globe, for the U.S. farmer to survive, we have to think in terms of how can I differentiate my product from others. It's the same concept that we learned in Marketing 101 or Ag Econ 50.

Can we differentiate our products? Definitely. Can we compete globally? Definitely. How can we better compete globally? That's what we're here today to address. Here are some points that we think we should consider in order to help us compete globally. First of all, open markets that are currently closed. Keep them open and let the U.S. private enterprise do what they do best, provide value both in the commodity market and the identity-preserved and value-added market, to always push for a clearer playing field and to know the rules of play, define terms of the GMO III. What does that actually mean, what do you have to do to abide by that? Labeling laws and products. To develop and implement simple and fair testing procedures for GMOs. Like I stated before, we don't want to force GMOs or any other technological advances down the throats of our customers. We want to give the customers what they want. If they want and will accept GMOs -- if they want them and will accept them, then that's what we will provide. If they don't want that, we will provide that as well. We are the provider. We're here to give the customer what they want.

Fourth, assuring accountability for commitments made, whether it's with private companies or government or large companies or individuals. When there's a commitment made, try to make assurances that those commitments are met.

Fifth and last, passage of the fast track authority for the President giving him the ability to help us out when the need arises. Thank you.