SUNDAY, APRIL 6

Holiday Inn-Capital, NAAJ Suite

1:30 p.m. Registration begins
2 p.m. Business meeting
3 p.m. Professional Development – TBA
6 p.m. Dinner (pay-your-own) - Merkado, 1443 P St. NW
After dinner, the hospitality suite will be open.

MONDAY, APRIL 7

Holiday Inn-Capital, Apollo Room, 2nd Floor

8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast provided
9 a.m. Cloning: Agriculture Undersecretary Bruce Knight; Barbara Glenn of the trade group BIO and, Jaydee Hanson, policy analyst for the Center for Food Safety.
10 a.m. Food prices: Food Research and Action Center president Jim Weill, Marc Cohen, Food Consumption and Nutrition research fellow with the International Food Policy Research Institute on the outlook globally, and USDA food price expert Ephraim Leibtag on high food price inflation in the United States.
11 a.m. Joe Glauber, newly named as USDA chief economist and also U.S. ag negotiator at the Doha round of trade talks.

Holiday Inn-Capital, Mercury Room. 2nd Floor

12:15 p.m. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer

Holiday Inn-Capital, Apollo Room, 2nd Floor

2 p.m. A panel on the U.S. election landscape: Political analyst and pollster Bill Greener; Dee Davis, founder and president of the Center for Rural Strategies; and, Barbara Leach, head of My Rural America.

National Press Club

6 p.m. Reception.
7 p.m. Dinner and writing contest awards.
8-9:30 p.m. Music and dancing by the Second Amendments, the hardest-working rock and roll band in Congress today.

Following the banquet, the hospitality suite will be open.

TUESDAY, APRIL 8

Senate Agriculture Committee room, 328A Russell

8 a.m. Breakfast with Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Republican leader on Senate Agriculture Committee.
9:30 a.m. Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D.
10:45 a.m. Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.

Longworth House Office Building, Room 1300

Noon House Agriculture Committee chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn.

Rayburn Building, Room 2362a

1 p.m. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., chair of the House Appropriations subcommittee on Agriculture.

Longworth House Office Building, Room 1300

2 p.m. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., Republican leader on the House Agriculture Committee, conference call.

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