On the recordJune 12, 1996
This did not prevent us from harvesting the crop. We are harvesting the crop. It is good wheat. It is high class wheat. But because it is harvested and it is simply selling restrictions that are a function of the quarantine, that is not covered, I understand, by most private insurance programs. So basically these farmers are out, at least in my county, in excess of some $70 million worth of wheat. I think Mr. Bono's county is pretty close to that. It is the Government-imposed quarantine which is the direct cause of the nonmarketability of the wheat at this point. Let me say this: This study Mr. Bono has talked about that we have done at the University of California says that a chance of an outbreak is less than 1 in 1 million years. We think that that new evidence, that it has been analyzed now by USDA, should justify USDA lifting the heating requirement that presently makes the marketability of this wheat very onerous.
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