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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

            Agriculture & Livestock Committee

            March 11, 2021 - 8:00 AM

            Impact of Winter Storm Uri on agriculture in Texas

                 For:

                                 Galeazzi, Dante (Texas International Produce Association)

                                 Seale, Charly (Exotic Wildlife Association)

                 On:

                                 Abell, Hughes (Self; Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association)

                                 Boening, Russell (Texas Farm Bureau)

                                 Essler, JC (Texas Poultry Federation)

                                 Hunter, Dan (Texas Department of Agriculture)

                                 Murden, Dale (Self; Texas Citrus Mutual)

                                 Skrobarczyk, Ryan (Texas Nursery & Landscape Association)

                                 Trevino, Eddie (USDA, Farm Service Agency)

                                 Turley, Darren (Texas Association of Dairymen)

                                 Waller, Mark (Tx A&M AgriLife)

                                 Willis, Duane (Texas Blueberry Marketing Association)

                                 Winegarner, Josh (Texas Cattle Feeders Association)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 On:

                                 Fearneyhough, Jason (Texas Department of Agriculture)

            HB 222

                 For:

                                 Kothmann, Merwyn (Self; Prescribed Burning Association of Texas)

                                 Opiela, Eric (Self; South Texans’ Property Rights Association)

                 Against:

                                 Treadwell, Brian (Self)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Laney, J Pete (Texas Conservation Association for Water and Soil)

                                 Schumann, Peyton (Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association)

                                 Stone, Harold (Texas Farm Bureau)

                 On:

                                 Dudley, Patrick (Texas Department of Agriculture)

                                 Hunter, Dan (Texas Department of Agriculture)

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

            HB 1070

                 For:

                                 Kemp, Rachelle (R and R Landscaping)

                                 Skrobarczyk, Ryan (Texas Nursery & Landscape Association)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Bessent, Kody (Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.)

                                 Davis, Joy (Texas Farm Bureau)

                                 Morris, Joe (Texas Forestry Association)

                                 Schumann, Peyton (Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association)

                                 Shields, Chris (Texas Agricultural Aviation Association)

                 On:

                                 Hunter, Dan (Texas Department of Agriculture)

                                 Kelly, Mike (Texas Department if Agriculture)

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

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