Can someone help me find some info on y2k impact on agriculture and farming? thanks John

-- John (jnesmith@hotmail.com), March 05, 1999

Answers

John,

Read the recent Senate Y2K committee testimony, then check out USDA website. -- Diane

Witness Statements from "The Food Supply: Will the Cupboards be Bare?"
February 5, 1999

http://www.senate.gov/~y2k/hearings/020599/ foodhearingcontents.html

Chairman Bob Bennett

http://www.senate.gov/~y2k/hearings/020599/bennet.html

Vice-Chairman Chris Dodd

http:// www.senate.gov/~y2k/hearings/020599/dodd.html

The Honorable Richard G. Lugar

http:/ /www.senate.gov/~y2k/hearings/020599/lugar.html

Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman

http://www.senate.gov/~y2k/hearings/020599/glickman.html

Allen Dickason, Chief Information Officer, Suiza Foods Corporation

http://www.senate.gov/~y2k/hearings/020599/dickason.html

Ken Evans, President, Arizona Farm Bureau Federation

http:/ /www.senate.gov/~y2k/hearings/020599/evans.html

Senator Gordon Smith

http:/ /www.senate.gov/~y2k/hearings/020599/smith.html

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), March 06, 1999.

USDA Web-site:

http://www.usda.gov/

Sources for searching government web-sites:

List of Federal Agency Internet Sites

http:// www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/agencies.html

Search the List of Federal Agency Internet Sites

http:// www.lib.lsu.edu/cgi-bin/search.cgi

View the List of Federal Agency Internet Sites

[Executive, Judicial, Legislative, Independent, Boards, Commissions, and Committees, and Quasi-Official]

http:// www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

Browse Government Internet Sites by Topic

http:// www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/pathbrws.html

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), March 06, 1999.

Lugar was quoted a few weeks ago as saying "entire farming communities could be wiped out"...(.notice the COULD not will) He is very concerned about y2k and Indiana.

-- Moore Dinty moore (not@thistime.com), March 07, 1999.