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111th Congress
 1st Session                COMMITTEE PRINT
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        COMPILATION OF RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE QUESTIONNAIRE

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                        COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                     

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111th Congress
 1st Session                COMMITTEE PRINT
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        COMPILATION OF RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE QUESTIONNAIRE

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                           PREPARED BY STAFF

                                 OF THE

                        COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                     

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                              PART 1 OF 2

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                        COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

                COLLIN C. PETERSON, Minnesota, Chairman

TIM HOLDEN, Pennsylvania,            FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma, Ranking 
    Vice Chairman                    Minority Member
MIKE McINTYRE, North Carolina        BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia
LEONARD L. BOSWELL, Iowa             JERRY MORAN, Kansas
JOE BACA, California                 TIMOTHY V. JOHNSON, Illinois
DENNIS A. CARDOZA, California        SAM GRAVES, Missouri
DAVID SCOTT, Georgia                 MIKE ROGERS, Alabama
JIM MARSHALL, Georgia                STEVE KING, Iowa
STEPHANIE HERSETH, South Dakota      RANDY NEUGEBAUER, Texas
HENRY CUELLAR, Texas                 K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas
JIM COSTA, California                JEFF FORTENBERRY, Nebraska
BRAD ELLSWORTH, Indiana              JEAN SCHMIDT, Ohio
TIMOTHY J. WALZ, Minnesota           ADRIAN SMITH, Nebraska
STEVE KAGEN, Wisconsin               ROBERT E. LATTA, Ohio
KURT SCHRADER, Oregon                DAVID P. ROE, Tennessee
DEBORAH L. HALVORSON, Illinois       BLAINE LUETKEMEYER, Missouri
KATHLEEN A. DAHLKEMPER,              GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania                         BILL CASSIDY, Louisiana
ERIC J.J. MASSA, New York            CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS, Wyoming
BOBBY BRIGHT, Alabama
BETSY MARKEY, Colorado
FRANK KRATOVIL, Jr., Maryland
MARK H. SCHAUER, Michigan
LARRY KISSELL, North Carolina
JOHN A. BOCCIERI, Ohio
SCOTT MURPHY, New York
EARL POMEROY, North Dakota
TRAVIS W. CHILDERS, Mississippi
WALT MINNICK, Idaho

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                           Professional Staff
                    Robert L. Larew, Chief of Staff
                     Andrew W. Baker, Chief Counsel
                 April Slayton, Communications Director
                 Nicole Scott, Minority Staff Director







                             C O N T E N T S

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Preface..........................................................     1
Letter and Questionnaire.........................................     2
25x`25...........................................................    11
Advanced Microbial Solutions.....................................    35
Agricultural Retailers Association...............................    44
Agricultural Carbon Market Working Group.........................    58
Air Transport Association of America, Inc........................    74
Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries.................    76
Alabama Farmers Federation.......................................    95
American Agriculture Movement, Inc...............................    96
American Bakers Association......................................    98
American Carbon RegistryTM, an enterprise of Winrock 
  International..................................................   101
American Enterprise Institute....................................   158
American Farm Bureau Federation..................................   184
American Farmers & Ranchers/Oklahoma Farmers Union...............   200
American Farmland Trust..........................................   210
American Forest & Paper Association..............................   223
American Forest Foundation.......................................   237
American Forests.................................................   247
American Gas Association.........................................   268
American Loggers Council.........................................   270
American Nursery & Landscape Association.........................   273
American Petroleum Institute.....................................   282
American Public Gas Association..................................   291
American Public Power Association................................   300
American Society of Agronomy (International Certified Crop 
  Advisors); Crop Science Society of America; Soil Science 
  Society of America.............................................   311
American Soybean Association.....................................   322
American Wind Energy Association.................................   332
Arcadia Biosciences..............................................   339
Archer Daniels Midland Company...................................   348
Association of Consulting Foresters..............................   349
Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies........................   376
Atlantic Biomass Conversions, Inc................................   390
Barney, Susan....................................................   402
Beddoe, Rachael..................................................   412
Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)........................   420
Brown, Robert C..................................................   431
California Association of Winegrape Growers......................   438
California Citrus Mutual.........................................   445
California Climate Action Registry/Climate Action Reserve........   453
California Farm Bureau Federation................................   462
California Forestry Association..................................   472
Cargill, Incorporated............................................   482
Center for American Progress Action Fund.........................   493
Center for Food Safety...........................................   506
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities...........................   520
Chen, Ph.D., Yihsu...............................................   529
Chicago Climate Exchange.........................................   537
Christensen Farms................................................   560
CHS Inc..........................................................   562
Clay, Dr. David Edward...........................................   577
CME Group........................................................   586
CNH America LLC..................................................   597
Coalition for Emission Reduction Project (CERP)..................   598
CoBankTM..............................................   615
Commodity Markets Council........................................   616
Conservation International.......................................   624
Council of Western State Foresters...............................   636
CropLife America.................................................   654
Dairy Farmers of America, Inc....................................   657
Dairylea Cooperative Inc.........................................   669
Deere & Company..................................................   670
Defenders of Wildlife............................................   682
DRD Associates; International Biochar Initiative.................   691
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.............................................   705
DuPont...........................................................   717
Ecotrust.........................................................   728
Edison Electric Institute........................................   741
Electric Power Research Institute................................   744
Electric Power Supply Association................................   753
Emerson, Stephen A...............................................   762
Environmental and Energy Study Institute.........................   770
Environmental Defense Fund.......................................   782
Environmental Working Group......................................   802
Everett, Leslie..................................................   814
Evolution Markets, Inc...........................................   821
Farm Family AllianceSM................................   839
Florida Crystals Corp.; Okeelanta Corp.; New Hope Power..........   864
Forest Climate Working Group.....................................   867
Forest Guild.....................................................   877
Framing Our Community, Inc.......................................   889
Friends Committee on National Legislation........................   909
Friends of the Earth--U.S........................................   917
GolfpreservesTM.......................................   931
Greenhouse Gas Services LLC......................................   939
Growth Energy....................................................   942
Heinze Frye, Ph.D., Gene Richard.................................   948
Holdridge, Martha................................................   971
Howard Soil Conservation District................................   982
Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society 
  International..................................................   992
Illinois Farm Bureau.............................................  1006
ImageTree Corporation............................................  1022
IMI Global, Inc..................................................  1032
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.......................  1042
Institute of Forest Biotechnology................................  1052
International Dairy Foods Association............................  1059
International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.............  1062
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation; AgraGate Climate Credits Corporation  1074
Iowa Soybean Association.........................................  1093
Izaak Walton League of America...................................  1096
Kansas Black Farmers Association.................................  1105
Kansas Department of Agriculture.................................  1111
Land O'Lakes, Inc................................................  1119
Land Stewardship Project.........................................  1128
Lange-Stegmann Company...........................................  1151
Limpert, Dana....................................................  1162
Louis Dreyfus Commodities........................................  1171
Love, Joshua D...................................................  1172
Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association.......  1184
McCarl, Bruce....................................................  1194
McKinley, George.................................................  1202
Miami Dade College...............................................  1210
Michigan Milk Producers Association..............................  1220
Miller, Tom......................................................  1222
Missouri Society of American Foresters...........................  1229
Monsanto Company.................................................  1240
Montana Grain Growers Association................................  1249
Moseley, Cassandra and Lynn, Kathy...............................  1261

 
        COMPILATION OF RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE QUESTIONNAIRE

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                              PART 1 OF 2

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                                MAY 2009

                  House of Representatives,
                                  Committee on Agriculture,
                                                   Washington, D.C.

                            PREFACE

    In March 2009, the House Committee on Agriculture 
formulated a questionnaire and distributed it to over 400 
organizations in order to gather information about the 
different options being considered in Congress to reduce 
greenhouse gas emissions. For years, farmers, ranchers, and 
forest landowners have been participating in agricultural 
programs that result in carbon reduction, and this solicitation 
was meant to find out how these efforts may fit in the overall 
task of addressing global climate change. The questionnaire was 
sent to a diverse group, including commodity, conservation, 
forestry, research, energy, business, and nonprofit interests 
and was released to the public for the opportunity to submit 
responses. The Committee received more than 200 responses to 
the questionnaire, showing the considerable interest in the 
work that farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners are already 
doing to support carbon sequestration and emission reduction as 
well as a great interest in identifying potential benefits for 
the future. The responses are presented here, in alphabetical 
order, by organization or individual name.
    The Committee would like to thank all those who 
participated in this process. The information gathered and 
presented will be helpful in future discussions related to 
climate change.



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